Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is "noctalgia." In general, it means "sky grief," and it captures the collective pain we are experiencing as we continue to lose access to the night sky.

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[–] 93 points 3 years ago (9 children)

There was a NASA lady on StarTalk recently talking about how there's something like 360,000 more satellites planned/approved to go into orbit and it's going to completely erase the night sky. We're at something like 7700 currently.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    We are slowly turning ourselves into Krikkit.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Soon as we invented the little green piece of paper it was all downhill from there

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If you have seen that StarTalk episode, do you remember what Neil DeGrasse Tyson's response to that? He seems like good people..

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