{"id":172628,"date":"2023-09-23T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-loss-of-dark-skies-is-so-painful-astronomers-coined-a-new-term-for-it"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:23:00","slug":"the-loss-of-dark-skies-is-so-painful-astronomers-coined-a-new-term-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-loss-of-dark-skies-is-so-painful-astronomers-coined-a-new-term-for-it","title":{"rendered":"The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-loss-of-dark-skies-is-so-painful-astronomers-coined-a-new-term-for-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: \u201cnoctalgia,\u201d meaning \u201csky grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with our propensity for polluting air and water and the massive amounts of carbon we\u2019re dumping into the atmosphere to trigger climate change, we have created another kind of pollution: light pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: \u201cnoctalgia,\u201d meaning \u201csky grief.\u201d Along with our propensity for polluting air and water and the massive amounts of carbon we\u2019re dumping into the atmosphere to trigger climate change, we have created [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}