Here's how to find the darkest skies for stargazing, including how to find an area with a low Bortle Number, apps and maps to find dark places, and a guide to dark sky parks and reserves.
It seems today if you want to make your name famous you have two choices – star in “leaked” home pornography tapes, or discover something that has so far eluded the capacity to be measured, find a way to measure it, develop a way to rank the measurements or place them into categories, and attach your name to the resulting scale. For example, the “Frater Scale” could be a ranking of items on a list - a better name for a "top 10 list" - where item 1 ranks as first on the Frater Scale. Not all scales are named after their inventors, but many are. It seems almost anything can be measured and if it can be measured, someone is going to come up with a scale to rate the measurement. Here are ten unusual scientific scales.
THE 18th century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not believe that God approved of street lighting. He thought that humans risked losing their souls in an overly artificial world! That was in the days of gas street lamps.
The first incandescent electric light bulb was commercially pro
Illumination degradation, also known as photo pollution, is caused by excessive ambient light and is a byproduct of population and industry. It is just one of the numerous types of pollutants on the planet, together with microplastics, gas emissions, and wastewater.