3.75 billion years from now -
the nighttime sky showing the Andromeda galaxy (M31) early in its collision with our Milky Way galaxy (Image: NASA / STScI)
Not exact matches
A new study
shows National Park visitors highly value the
nighttime sky and want park managers to minimize light pollution.
Mirroring a methodology Manning and his colleagues have used to understand other elements of the visitor experience, the researchers
showed park visitors a series of photographs of
nighttime skies at Acadia with successively more light pollution.
A low cloud cover increases the
sky emittance and hence «back» radiation.The surface energy balance then
shows that the surface temperature increases and the convection heat loss from the ocean decreases: thus the
nighttime subsurface ocean temperature does not decrease as much compared to that for a clear
sky.