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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    3 years ago

    I laughed at that last part. I am sorry that happened to you but it is pretty funny.

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      3 years ago

      Can’t even watch the stars without that dumbass spamming your view field