Dark skies are often difficult to come by, especially if you, like the majority of the world's population, live near a sprawling metropolis. The increasingly acute scourge of light pollution is a pressing issue not only for amateur and professional astronomers, but for anyone who wants to look up on a cloudless night. But deep inside Yosemite National Park, astronomers flock with their increasingly sophisticated array of astronomical equipment to stare deep into space and bathe in the starry spectacle above them.
In this captivating short documentary, filmmaker Steven M. Bumgardner takes us on a high-definition tour of Yosemite at night, capturing some of the clearest views of the Milky Way and the countless stars, nebulae and other galaxies beyond. Be sure to switch the video to the HD version. This is part of a series of videos -- called Yosemite Nature Notes.
"The sense of scale involved in looking at the sky is enormous. You realize that we live on a tiny spaceship that's orbiting this average star in a galaxy full of 200 billion stars." -- Morris Jones, opening narration of "Night Skies"
From Discovery News
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