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Though city lights illuminate the night, they and other forms of light may disrupt our circadian rhythms, potentially making people more vulnerable to disease.
Without light pollution, the stars’ brilliance is unmatched.
Filmmaker Harun Mehmedinovic trekked into New Mexico’s White Sands dune field to create a time-lapse that’s like a hymn to nature.
“This apparently dead place is merely dormant.”
In Shenandoah Valley, part of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a stunning phenomenon last summer revealed the ancient beauty of the night sky.
Astronomers have much to celebrate in the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL). Until the 1930s, every scrap of information about the universe came to us in the form of light.
