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407: The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez)
Not What You Think with Zacha Rosen
English - October 21, 2016 08:00 - 17 minutes - 17 BytesSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
There’s this thing that’s disappearing in cities across the world: the entire Milky Way. Light pollution means that more and more people can’t see our own galaxy in the sky. A view which used to be a fundamental human experience.
Angel Lopez-Sanchez is an astronomer at the the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and Macquarie University who knows what we’re missing and what we can do about it.
Links from this episode:
Angel’s blog, the Lined Wolf and his post on light pollution.
Find a good piece of dark sky to find the Milky Way on with the Dark Sky Map.
Or read about Australia’s recently-declared, first Dark Sky Park.
Songs from this episode:
Human Orchestra — Mark Bradshaw (Bright Star soundtrack)
As You Wish — stackhat
Still Unbeaten Life — Gang of Youths
Chi Glow — Fishing
Honest — Little Earthquake
Lux Aeterna — Clytus Gottwold (2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack)