This photo of a dark sky is the way many people remember experiencing the night sky,even in large cities. Photo courtesy, International Dark-Sky Assoc. Marquees beam the titles of the latest shows.
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This is a place to gaze at stars of the human variety. Anything celestial is lost in the milky haze that bathes the sky. Times Square may be a dazzling extreme, but America likes lights. The country is so well illuminated that astronomers say that only one in 10 Americans lives in a place where light pollution has not obscured the diamond-studded beauty of the night sky. The result is that in the nation's urban areas, far fewer stars are visible than in rural spots, and fainter objects, such as the Milky Way galaxy, small meteors and wispy nebulas, disappear completely.