Dark Sky Week Apr 24, 2022

Dark Sky Week

During International Dark Sky Week, we"re counting ourselves lucky to have this spectacular nighttime view, considering the astonishing fact that 83% of the global population lives under a light-polluted sky. Unneeded artificial light is classified as a pollutant and has been proven to have harmful side effects. Not only does it waste money and energy, it also disrupts plants and animals, is believed to impact the climate, and blocks our view of the universe.

© Cory Marshall/Tandem Stills + Motion

palette

Today in History

Apr 24, 2018National Park Week: Everglades National Park
Apr 24, 2019Cool water in the Quinault
Apr 24, 2020Celebrating 30 years of eye-opening images
Apr 24, 2021A garden of prickly delights
Apr 24, 2023Old underground cellar, Bavaria, Germany
Apr 24, 2024White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
Apr 24, 2025Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Nov 29, 2022Giving Tuesday
Jun 7, 2018Humpbacks return to the Inside Passage
Dec 30, 2021Westerheversand Lighthouse
Apr 14, 2019A view fit for a queen
Mar 19, 2020Sunburst at Angkor
Jun 6, 2023D-Day remembered
Oct 12, 2023Farmers Day
Jun 20, 2025Summer solstice
Jan 15, 2019A personal collection becomes an institution
Jun 10, 2023Porto Cathedral, Portugal
Apr 17, 2025Andean cocks-of-the-rock, Ecuador
Oct 20, 2021Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
May 15, 2020The last thing seen by Wile E. Coyote
Mar 28, 2019Let us introduce you…
Nov 22, 2019The Cutty Sark turns 150
Feb 7, 2020Frozen fun in the Canadian cold
Aug 23, 2025St. Barbaras Cathedral, Kutná Hora, Czechia
Sep 12, 2019Astrotourism at its finest
Aug 22, 2025Rolling hills of the Palouse, Washington
Nov 6, 2020Life in the slow lane
Nov 30, 2021Giving Tuesday
Nov 3, 2025World Jellyfish Day
Mar 12, 2020Fiesta at Siesta
May 21, 2023Pont dArcole over the Seine river, Paris, France
Aug 24, 2025European fallow deer in England
Jul 27, 2020A stunning sight in Mexico s wilderness
Feb 28, 2022Winter in England s Cotswolds
Dec 1, 2020Giving Tuesday
Oct 10, 2019A star blows a bubble
Jan 8, 2024Bernina Pass, Graubünden, Switzerland