Tell us if you can see the Milky Way. Help us bring back the dark night sky.
Media contacts: Shelley Thomas, shelley@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0416 377 444; or Tanya Ha, tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.
Participate at: www.abc.net.au/nightsky from 31 July.
Humanity grew up seeing the Milky Way: feeling a sense of awe and wonder, and questioning our place in the Universe. But now, due to light pollution, it is disappearing from our view.
The ABC and Australian National University (ANU) invite you to become a real-life ‘guardian of the Galaxy’ to help conserve our dark night sky.
“The Milky Way is disappearing before our eyes,” says ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker, of Earth’s ‘home galaxy’, estimated to contain over 100 billion stars and stretching 100,000 light years in diameter.
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