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-...
The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local
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.
This reads like an XKCD "What if"! "What if we went someplace EVEN DARKER"?