Before Starlink ... Starlink satellites appear as points of light moving from west to east, like a string of tiny pearls across the dark sky. (Some people have even mistaken them for UFOs.) ...

If you see a constant white light cross the sky, it could well be a satellite ... it's bright in the east immediately after dark — easily in the eye line of anyone outside as it gets dark.

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects ... backside so that it faces the bright sky is a quick and easy method to get back on track.

“If you can still see the dimmest stars, you are in a very dark ... of artificial lighting, which used satellite images of the Earth at night, had estimated the annual increase in sky brightness ...

WASHINGTON – A prototype satellite ... bright for many sky observers around the world,” Meredith Rawls, co-author of a paper on the finding and member of the IAU Center for the Protection of ...

Outside of the relatively barren open ocean and polar wastelands, the fraction of the populated planet with naturally dark skies ... evidence of artificial light are going to get much harder ...