2023-09-21 16:55:58
50 years ago, the term ” light pollution “ appeared in the big view Science.
Since 2011, our night sky has been getting brighter by regarding 10% per year. Many studies have focused on the physiological effects of this excess light that we inflict on ourselves. To us and to all living beings who share our life on Earth. But today, it is to an aspect perhaps a little less tangible that researchers draw attention in their article not yet peer-reviewed.
Fewer and fewer stars in the sky
These astronomers mourn — almost literally — the disappearance of the starry sky. This sky towards which humanity has turned admiring and questioning eyes for millennia. This sky as the source of all mythologies and some religions. This sky which, we discovered a little more recently, takes us back to the complex structure of our own brain.
“Much more than a simple loss of environmentwrite the researchers, we are witnessing a loss of heritage, language, identity, stories and our ability to develop activities in accordance with our traditional practices and which respect the ecological integrity of what we call home.”
Noctalgia to describe a new form of sadness
For all these reasons, astronomers have decided to put a word on this form of sadness at seeing the starry sky disappear: noctalgia.
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