Craig Childs

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Science Friday · Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Stars are coming out.

Let's drop here.

It's a perfect astronomy word.

and I was drawn to it partly because of the name, because it sounds like something hurtling through space.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Every night was...

was remarkably different.

And that's what I didn't know if that would happen or not, that you were seeing so many more stars night by night.

And so you're watching this transition, even the second night.

I mean, the first night, you're

When we got out of the city, it's still that ivory glow of, you know, macular degeneration coming out of the city.

But after that, you know, you start picking up more and more stars.

And even 20, 40 miles out of the city, we were getting a pretty nice night sky.

I learned that it's the transition that really matters, that going to a dark place, you want to be there at dusk.

You want to watch the stars come on because then your eyes really adjust.

Because by the end of this, I got to the darkest sky that I've ever seen.

And I live in a fertile one in Colorado.

And I've been...

way out in the atacama desert in south america which has you know most of the big telescopes and so i've seen those great dark skies but it was very different actually going through the transition and and by the end seeing the most spectacular sky i've ever seen which was not because

the sky was any more full of stars.

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