'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.

  • @KbobabobEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    The part that wasn’t in the title:

    astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: “noctalgia,” meaning “sky grief.”