Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Light Pollution

Can we just thank these two for all the knowledge they share, and inspire us to seek knowledge ourselves

Please don’t stop these.

I grew up in the 60s and remember when the pollution in some cities was so bad you couldn't see the sun. Young people today just don't realize how hard it was for previous generations to get our government to outlaw polluting the air and water of our country. I now live near Lake Ontario and at night I get a glorious view of our sky, but when I look south it's as if the stars were all turned off.

How does the night sky look from your location?

Here in Germany we have 3 "light reservations", where the few cities that are in the area run down their lighting at night.

I love this dynamic of astrophysicist and average science-curious person, it just makes it so much more accessible. Keep it up, you guys, and pass my gratitude to Neil and Chuck!! 😄

I live in Port Angeles, Washington, about a 30 minute drive to the top of a mountain. I go up there to catch the leonids and perseids and it's really amazing how massive the difference is between what I can see from my home versus what I can see from the top of the mountain.

i am actually finishing my assignment about light pollution and this came at the right time

Back in 2001 there was a failure in the national electric provider that caused a blackout in the entire Northern Greece, everybody sat on their balconies almost the entire night to watch the night sky.

In the early 2000s there was a major blackout in NYC, and it suddenly became a dark sky site, and people were calling 911 thinking the milky way was a gas attack. They had never seen the milky way or even knew what it was