Light Pollution: The Stars Have Vanished But We Can Bring Them Back
Where Did All the Stars Go? Why Can’t We See the Night Sky Anymore? When was the last time you looked up at the night sky and saw more than one star? If you're like most of us growing up in cities, the answer is probably never. We hear about constellations in textbooks. We see pictures of galaxies on Instagram. We watch movies where people gaze at the stars and feel connected to something bigger. But in real life? All we get is a dull, hazy sky—and maybe a plane pretending to be a star if we’re lucky. And yet, somehow, we’ve accepted this. We don’t talk about it. We don’t question it. We just… move on. But I want to ask: How are kids supposed to care about space if they’ve never really seen the stars? When We Steal the Sky from Children I had a space phase when I was younger. Maybe we all did. You know the kind—devouring books on black holes, sticking glow-in-the-dark stars on your ceiling, daydreaming about floating in zero gravity. But here’s the thing. It’s really hard to fall i...