https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/milky-way/ Recent content in Milky Way on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:13:57 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/milky-way-invisible-third-humanity/ Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:13:57 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/milky-way-invisible-third-humanity/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/milky-way-invisible-third-humanity/LightAtlas_ScienceAdvances_mod.jpg" alt="A map of North America from the New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness. Warmer colors indicate where the glow from artificial light most obscures stars from view in the night skies. Credit: Falchi et al., Science Advances, June 2016; Jakob Grothe/National Park Service, Matthew Price/CIRES/CU-Boulder." loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>A map of North America from the New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness. Warmer colors indicate where the glow from artificial light most obscures stars from view in the night skies. Credit: Falchi et al., Science Advances, June 2016; Jakob Grothe/National Park Service, Matthew Price/CIRES/CU-Boulder.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Death Valley National Park is a remote place, and in its night sky countless stars, including many in our own Milky Way Galaxy, are visible. But on the park&rsquo;s eastern horizon, a dome of light appears each night, blotting out stars in that part of the sky. The glow of city lights from Las Vegas creates this &ldquo;light pollution,&rdquo; which worldwide now hides the Milky Way from about one-third of humanity, according to a new <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377">study</a> in Science Advances.</p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/online-stargazing-gigagalaxy-zoom/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/online-stargazing-gigagalaxy-zoom/ <h3 id="blogging-on-earth">Blogging on EARTH</h3> <p>In need of a sense of perspective? The <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/">European Southern Observatory</a> has a new way to look at the universe: with a zoom button.</p> <p>ESO has unveiled an interactive, online 360-degree panoramic view of the night sky called <a href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/">GigaGalaxy Zoom</a>, with which you can gaze at the stars as they appeared above two of the observatory's dark, crystal-clear viewing sites in Chile (<a href="http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/23f-7d9-7-1f">La Silla</a> and Paranal). ESO plans to release three extremely high-resolution images, each successively more detailed, for viewing at GigaGalaxy Zoom as part of the <a href="http://www.astronomy2009.org/">International Year of Astronomy 2009</a>.</p>