and then plopping down nearby. I’m the one who will know if she isn’t here. I’m the one who will miss her with my whole broken heart. The quality of my life will be significantly reduced without her tail wagging and her sweet snoring and her soft snuggly heart-filled body covered...
Well-known actors Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, and Lewis Stone would head the human cast, but the true stars of the film would be O’Brien’s creations. The Lost World is nothing short of a landmark in the history of the special effects driven film. O’Brien and his team took great c...
A small night-sky radiometer installed near the main stages and a calibrated digital camera from a nearby observation spot inside of the park were used to quantify changes in night sky brightness and direct light emissions within the park. The impact of the music festival on the urban skyglow...
each equally important to its existence. Early humans readily observed the darkest of night skies, where the collective light of billions of stars in our Milky Way was so intense it would cast shadows on new moon nights. Night skies inspired many questions about our place in the universe, giv...
For example, sky radiance can have contrasting trends dur- ing a single night in nearby locations. The sky over a city often becomes progressively darker over the course of the night (Fig. 1A). In contrast, at nearby rural locations, the sky becomes brighter as the moon rises. Clouds ...
From there, it’s an easy cruise through the cave, where above you, you begin to see glow worms like stars in the sky. They seemed limitless in number. It reminded me of my childhood when I used to put those glow-in-the-dark cosmos stickers on my ceiling and stare at them as they...
answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. Recent research by astrophysicists from the universities of Amsterdam and Princeton proposes that if dark matter is indeed made of axions, it could reveal itself in the form of a subtle additional glow coming from pulsating stars....
For example, sky radiance can have contrasting trends during a single night in nearby locations. The sky over a city often becomes progressively darker over the course of the night (Fig. 1A). In contrast, at nearby rural locations, the sky becomes brighter as the moon rises. Clouds play a...