Starship Asterisk*

Appropriate. One day after Darkened Cities, an artist's view of nighttime over large cities, the APOD is a real image of nighttime Earth: overwhelming light pollution and a sky few people see anymore. Thank you APOD editors for showing us two possible futures. Ah, but which one will we choose? I cho...

What a magnificent view! Throughout history, artists have often been the ones pushing the rest of us to change, to evolve. I hope we as a species will awaken in time to save the Milky Way from our artificial lights, and restore dark night skies. We will need to change, however, and soon, how we figh...