Local Motion: Where the Sky Begins: Fighting for Dark Skies on Colorado’s Western Slope
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, from south of Montrose(Brody Wilson)
This week’s Local Motion begins in space. As NASA’s Artemis 2 mission completed the first crewed lunar flyby in more than fifty years, astronaut Christina Koch looked back at our planet and found herself struck not by Earth’s beauty — but by the darkness surrounding it. “Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe,” she said.
On Colorado’s Western Slope, that darkness is still something you can step outside and see. But it’s not guaranteed. Eighty percent of the world’s population now lives somewhere…
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