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.
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Images dance on jumbo television screens in a kinetic display of kilowatt consumption. 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.