Look up to the sky…
Goodbye, Orion Nebula! As the nights grow warmer, this cosmic nursery slips lower in the sky, soon to vanish from our view. A stellar birthplace, it is a stunning cloud of gas and dust, where new stars and planetary systems come to life. (Only!) 1344 light-years away from Earth, its brightness and size make it visible to the naked eye in the night sky.
See you again in autumn.
#camping #connectwithnature #stargazing #lookup
#darksky #seestar #astrophotography #orion
I wonder if any Spaniards recently took to making lemonade by finding a nice rooftop and waiting for sunset to catch a rare non-rural glimpse of a dark night sky?
#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #LonelyDog #HeartWrenching #SadEyes #Abandonment #StormySky #SomberMood #Loss #Despair #BarrenLandscape #FadingHeadlights #EmotionalScene #DogWatchingCar #RoughFur #SlumpedPosture #DryGround #MutedLighting #Shadows #Loneliness #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #lonelydog #heartwrenching #abandonment #sadness #despair #stormyweather #darksky #fadingheadlights #dogsofinstagram #emotionalmoment #barrenlandscape #sombermood #animalemotions #loss #wildlifephotography
Establishing a "right to darkness" could save our night skies: https://www.salon.com/2025/04/15/take-back-the-night-establishing-a-right-to-darkness-could-save-our-night-skies/ - #DarkSky proponents mull the rights of #nature to battle #LightPollution; here's how it would work.
Everyone who had the chance to see the sky being in the mountains, in the desert, on high seas would instantly second this!
a world where be both can be together
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/43065740181090603/
#sunny #rainbow #darksky
whereever you like, can be our place ...STAY where your heart guides you to belong
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/161144492911422506/
#flowers #trees #clouds
The image depicts a solitary wooden watchtower or hunting blind standing on a hill against a backdrop of a dark, overcast sky. The landscape appears barren and the horizon features silhouettes of trees. The overall mood is calm and atmospheric.
#CalmLandscape #MinimalisticPhoto #Solitude #NaturePhotography #Silhouette #EveningVibes #HorizonView #CountrysideScene #DarkSky #MistyMorning
Dark Rum, an island off Scotland's coast, is now Europe's newest official Dark Sky Reserve! 🌌 Sophie shared an NY Times article showcasing its natural preservation and lack of artificial lighting.
Canada's remote (but accessible) dark-sky sanctuary
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250218-jasper-canadas-remote-but-accessible-dark-sky-sanctuary
@kim_harding "Are satellites bad for the environment?"
Tthe article is right regarding light pollution and carbon cost of ascent, but fails to note Kessler Syndrome / Collisional Cascading, and doesn't say the minimum re-entry pollution.
Satellite re-entry pollution is more impactful than the mass alone would suggest because of (catalytic?) effects of metals in different atmospheric strata where otherwise there's very little of those elements.
"Measurements show that about 10% of the aerosol particles in the stratosphere contain aluminum and other metals that originated from the “burn-up” of satellites and rocket stages during reentry. [...] These measurements have broad implications for the stratosphere and higher altitudes.
The mass of lithium, aluminum, copper, and lead from the reentry of spacecraft was found to exceed the cosmic dust influx of those metals" [1]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313374120
Also excellent: https://earthsky.org/earth/space-vehicle-re-entries-shed-exotic-metal-particles-in-earths-atmosphere/
re: https://pirg.org/edfund/articles/are-satellites-bad-for-the-environment/
#satellites #satellite #reentry #KesslerSyndrome #pollution #darkSkies #darkSky #space #spacecraft #environment #metal #atmosphere