Wednesday, 15. August 2007
Topic: NEWS - on August 15, 2007 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Light Pollution
What would Douglas Adams say?
It's a good question to ask at any time, and came to mind when I read a New Yorker article on how poorly designed urban lighting has made it nearly impossible to see the nighttime cosmos in all its glory, and sometimes nearly impossible to see at all.
Galileo's homemade telescopes were less powerful than a toy you might give to a stargazing boy on his birthday, but Galileo was able, writes David Owen, to discover that the moon has mountains and Jupiter has moons, and that the Milky Way is made of individual stars rather than a single continuous substance.
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