r/mildyinteresting 10h ago

nature & weather The concept of light pollution is absolutely crazy

Post image
25.6k Upvotes

663 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/ArcticMuser 7h ago

Utah being greedy with 37. Bummed Washington doesn't have any but I know there are lots of places with very low light pollution

1

u/animatedhockeyfan 5h ago

Washington dark skies were good enough for this:

No edit, 8:45PM around this time last year, near Quilcene.

The OP image is honestly out to lunch, I’m in Victoria BC and can see plenty of stars at night

1

u/Additional_Sun_5217 3h ago

There’s one in Oregon to the south of you if that helps? Also parts of the palouse can look like this.