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Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
Bad Astronomer, SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com I'm self-employed so my opinions do represent my company's.
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Wanna know how dark the sky can get? You have to get away from city lights, and atmosphere lights, and even solar system lights. In fact, launching a probe to interstellar space past Pluto is the way to go. And then you find the universe itself glows..… www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How Dark Is the Night Sky?
How Dark Is the Night Sky?

The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local

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I grew up in Dallas and literally didn't believe in the Milky Way (the white streak in the sky, not the galaxy we live in) until I was like 15 and saw it at summer camp. I had always figured it was a thing that was showed up when telescopes were invented. Not just naked eye forever.

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This reads like an XKCD "What if"! "What if we went someplace EVEN DARKER"?

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Phil Plait
@philplait.bsky.social
Bad Astronomer, SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com I'm self-employed so my opinions do represent my company's.
22.5k followers286 following8.4k posts