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.

  • @FordBeeblebrox
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    191 year ago

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

    • @sep
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      111 year ago

      Should never have gotten down from the trees