Across eleven years and more than fifty thousand quiet acts of looking up, ordinary people have documented something satellites could not fully see: the night sky is brightening roughly twice as fast as instruments in orbit suggested, erasing stars from human view at a rate that could reduce a child's visible sky fourfold before adulthood. The culprit is not a single source but a diffuse and growing veil — blue-shifted LED light scattering sideways through the atmosphere, invisible to orbital sensors yet unmistakable to the naked eye. What is being lost is not merely a scenic amenity but one o
Night Sky Dimming Twice as Fast as Satellites Detected, Study Finds
Over 80% of humanity already lives under light-polluted skies; the Milky Way is invisible to one-third of the global population, including 60% of Europeans and 80% of North Americans.