'Noctalgia' is a feature of the modern age.

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.

  • Flying SquidOPEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Only in the most remote deserts, wilderness areas and oceans can you find a sky as dark as our ancestors knew them.

      • SuperDuperEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I think it’s quite nihilistic to just accept that there’s no going back to a better night sky as if too many lights being kept on a night is an insurmountable problem.