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The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is "noctalgia." In general, it means "sky grief," and it captures the collective pain we are experiencing as we continue to lose access to the night sky.

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[–] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There was a NASA lady on StarTalk recently talking about how there's something like 360,000 more satellites planned/approved to go into orbit and it's going to completely erase the night sky. We're at something like 7700 currently.

[–] Philolurker@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon as we invented the little green piece of paper it was all downhill from there

[–] sep@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should never have gotten down from the trees

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

But digital watches are pretty cool, aren't they?

[–] ElJefe@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Ehh apparently it’s 11330 as of the end of June this year.

https://www.pixalytics.com/satellites-orbiting-earth-2023/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Index%20of,the%20last%20of%20these%20updates.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have seen that StarTalk episode, do you remember what Neil DeGrasse Tyson's response to that? He seems like good people..

[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What was it?

[–] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't recall offhand his response but I believe it was this episode: https://startalkmedia.com/show/the-story-of-space-imaging-with-carolyn-madam-saturn-porco/