Have you seen the Milky Way with your own eyes before?
@Ichbindeprimiert11 ай бұрын
Ja
@nothingedith33811 ай бұрын
No
@Dxrkkk111 ай бұрын
No 😭
@geesolteri275711 ай бұрын
Sadly not😢
@Alex_2011 ай бұрын
i wish i've seen saturn last night tho edit: 2 months ago...
@alfiewilliams252511 ай бұрын
Man imagine what it would've looked like looking up at the night sky in the 1700's with no light pollution.
@LordOfTheChickinz11 ай бұрын
@@echelonrank3927what are you like 323 years old or somthing
@NickTheCoolest74311 ай бұрын
Damn
@jappyproductions442911 ай бұрын
@@LordOfTheChickinzlmao
@FetusFight11 ай бұрын
@@LordOfTheChickinzread what he said
@KaijuLanes11 ай бұрын
Nah bro imagine what it looked like 65 million years ago
@lsonoe11 ай бұрын
It's mind-boggling to think about when I was a little kid, I never imagined that it was even possible for the Milky Way to be a part of our night sky. People grew accustomed to the empty view. Experiencing the actual dark sky would change the perspective of probably every individual and It's really my biggest goal to see it with my own eyes. Your videos inspire me every time, love you brother
@JustCallMeAarav11 ай бұрын
I live in new delhi, it's impossible for me to spot the milkyway within a day imo. Can u help finding me some bortle 1 dark skies near new delhi?
@theinternetlawyer712611 ай бұрын
I actually remember seeing multiple and multiple of stars on the sky, this was when I was 4. I was born in 2006 and live in a more rural city called Umeå in sweden
@bitmann882411 ай бұрын
@@JustCallMeAaravu probably won’t find one near such a big city as new dehli
@nychris225811 ай бұрын
Its really not hardto accomplish your biggest goal. You just need to drive out to a remote area.
@charleygnarly118211 ай бұрын
Where the hell are you 😂 man I see that shit every night
@roytoersen48019 ай бұрын
My dad always told me what we have on our farm is rare... a clear, not light poluted sky. Now I understand what he was saying and I cant believe people are missing out on it
@UtoobResident8 ай бұрын
Cherish that man I wish I had that veiw
@Info_guy011 күн бұрын
You’re sooooooo lucky, I live in Pretoria, South Africa, and I wish to be an Astronomer one day, but due to the lights, I can only see a few blue dots and that’s that.
@luigiplushworld5 күн бұрын
@@Info_guy0 Bro Petoria is in USA not in africa
@Info_guy05 күн бұрын
@@luigiplushworld Pretoria is one of South Africa’s 3 capitals. Unless you’re joking though.
@subplantant2 күн бұрын
@@Info_guy0 Shoulda known better than to argue with Info guy
@dominikkuzila10 ай бұрын
The worst thing is that most people don't even care that they live in light polluted areas, because they don't know what they're missing out on. How many people have never even thought to look up at night because they can only see the brightest stars and the Moon?
@maxsundux10 ай бұрын
yo me we got the moon three stars in a line and the north star that's it. If I see a sky with full constellation it's a nice night
@breatheair68479 ай бұрын
@@maxsunduxa lucky night
@YourAverageSpeedrunner8 ай бұрын
Sadly, in light polluted areas, those “stars” aren’t even stars, more likely, their planets, like jupiter, mars, venus, etc
@prezlamen79068 ай бұрын
Ive met city troglodytes that dont know what a garden was, or a chicken. People today are retarded and 3 neurons they have wont be thinking of this stuff.
@LighterGame8 ай бұрын
@@YourAverageSpeedrunnerit means those 2 blue stars are ice giant I was looking at it I almost fell on the car
@TelPhi_11 ай бұрын
I have always found it INSANE how I never see anybody talking about this. Thank you for bringing awareness to this situation!
@Finn_MacCool11 ай бұрын
Think about it in a rational way...
@57chevisawsomeness11 ай бұрын
I find it insane to learn about light pollution, I live in regional Australia with a bright night sky, blows my mind people have never seen what i thought is just normal
@Mildain200011 ай бұрын
@@57chevisawsomeness I lived in Cairns for a while and remember seeing the Milky Way arch across the sky every night. Have never seen anything like that in the US.
@trump45and2zig-zags11 ай бұрын
@@Mildain2000I can see it right now. I'm from the Midwest tho
@Mildain200011 ай бұрын
@@trump45and2zig-zags I'm jealous
@vivian-rs2ms11 ай бұрын
About 8 years ago I went to Mauna Kea, and it was a mind-altering experience. I was used to a few stars if it was a super clear night, and suddenly there were thousands. I had no idea that was what our night sky looked like. It’s one of my favorite memories to this day.
@cokoi11 ай бұрын
I am still used to few star sky at night and has never experienced such thing before, I have dream of going to place where I can see all the stars and real clean sky, but I think it's just not possible.... You are lucky man
@itande055111 ай бұрын
Same I live in Mexico city, a city bigger than the region called after it, a city where it's a miracle if you see a star, but when I went to Phillip Island in Australia, I went to see the little blue penguins and endend up seeing the Milky Way, like I had never seen before
@DI9ITALS10 ай бұрын
was it a bortle 1?? if so i need to go because i go to hawaii in 3 days
@Hangishta10 ай бұрын
@@DI9ITALS Go-astronomy Says that Mauna Kea is Bortle 1. It also says Manuka State Park is too, so maybe two destinations for your trip.
@fkboyStalin10 ай бұрын
if you hold up a piece of sand, 1 single grain, the space that takes up when you extend your arm and look at it, within that space there are 10,000 stars, that is a LOT of stars, we just don't get to see it :(
@BinhNguyen-uw1tc6 ай бұрын
Hello I am 15 years old and from Vietnam. Back in 2020, I had a trip to Nghe An (sea tourism), I remember it very clearly in early July 2020. Then, from the evening of that day, the whole resort and some surrounding areas lost power. At night, some of my relatives and I couldn't sleep because it was too hot. My cousin and I went out and an amazing scene appeared before my eyes, a night sky in Bortle 3-4. It was extremely beautiful, full of stars and darkness, my cousin and I simply will never forget that night, the most beautiful night of my life. At that time I had a question: Why can't we see this scene above the city? . From there I started learning about light pollution and astrophotography. 2022 is the first year I photographed the Milky Way in my hometown (Suburban Hanoi). Now my biggest wish is to raise people's awareness about light pollution and hope that Vietnam will have the first night sky conservation area, a dark sky place . I want to have a sustainable tourism industry based on night sky conservation. and green tourism, I believe it is sustainable tourism. I want to say to everyone who lives under light-polluted skies and wishes to have a night sky like me, I believe we can do it, bring the night sky back to us. Best wishes to all of you from Vietnam 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
@vinhnguyen-o5z9 күн бұрын
da~ vl
@Spider_Gowrk3 күн бұрын
And best wishes to u and Vietnam I hope u success
@Thai85212 күн бұрын
Fellow Vietnamese(American) here, that's very cool! I hope you'll be able to do it one day!
@Ellarix27 күн бұрын
Is crazy to think that people have died never seeing our galaxy before.
@matthewmorgan58222 сағат бұрын
I mean, most people didn't live past 18 or even birth until the modern era.
@HailAzathoth19 сағат бұрын
@@matthewmorgan582 u think peoples eyes only develop when they turn 18? 😂
@KEENANALLENASMRGLASS11 ай бұрын
Spent 2 years in Alaska about 30 miles outside of kavalina and you can absolutely see so much of the skies and space it’s so beautiful and humbling like you can literally feel yourself tumbling through space sitting on a giant rock. It took me a couple years to get used to seeing it like through a film here in Denver. I miss it dearly.
@pbg202511 ай бұрын
Fellow Denverite. I remember seeing the sky in Death Valley for the first time. It moved me to tears it was so beautiful. I miss it too.
@OccupiedHandle11 ай бұрын
Hey man no wonder Jesse Pinkman went to Alaska ❤
@07kstephen11 ай бұрын
@@pbg2025the undertaker 🎉
@notmetagaming11 ай бұрын
Just go to summit county, it's beautiful up there you can see so much sky and it's super close to you in Denver!
@paranaenselol11 ай бұрын
Im planning on going to a boat trip, far from surface, only ocean and see the bright starts
@notmrusername757611 ай бұрын
As someone who absolutely LOVES the night sky but could only see a couple stars at night, its quite sad. One of my goals in life is to find a place with little light polution and allows me to see the arm of the Milky Way. Luckily I'm in a place in Canada where it isnt TOO populated and I could easily find a place outside the city that allows to see the Milky Way or the Aurora Borealis. And thats by going more North, where it gets colder and where the population gets lower
@pixazelz10 ай бұрын
not populated yet ... it's sad that our system is based on growth .. with 8 billions people on Earth we must start to ask ourselves if we really want to sacrifice nature for infinite growth in a finite world. I still hold a small hope that we will get our priorities straight and stop thinking about alway growing more and more if is means to sacrifice a lot of things we need .
@mexfu514210 ай бұрын
this so me I live in germany therefore I have never seen the night sky with more than a couple of stars my goal in life is like camping in some forest waking up during the night coming out of my tent and seeing the Milky Way I love everything related with space and I am so sad that I'm not abel to see it every night
@myprofilepictureisafish10 ай бұрын
Even where I’m at there isn’t a huge population but I can still see a massive difference from just 10 years ago to now
@13_cmi10 ай бұрын
I’m at the edge of the city so it isn’t too bad but this is no longer the only subdivision here. A new neighborhood is about to be built in the direction I always point my camera for deep sky photography. This population growth is killing me. I won’t be able to do astrophotography in the city anymore unfortunately.
@claudeheinrich361310 ай бұрын
same@@mexfu5142
@arbusto230810 ай бұрын
as someone who lives in some mountains in south america, my sky is clear. And yes, i see the Milky Way frequently, and everyone should have this experience at some point
@bongphotographerАй бұрын
But everyone aren't lucky.....
@myprofilepictureisafish10 ай бұрын
It took multiple years of my life for me to see a constellation, and I was completely stuck in place looking at the sky after coming home from a long trip at night because I genuinely thought they weren’t that easily viewable but it’s one of those moments that made me remember how much I used to love the stars as a child, looking at the sky at night in a cozy blanket and loving drives home at night just staring out the window for hours
@thetopofworld11 ай бұрын
I was raised in a little village in a developing nation. We used to spend the summer nights sleeping on the terrace under the starry night, and during my early years, counting stars at night was a regular nightly ritual. Before moving to New York, I was unaware of how truly magical and uncommon my experience was.
@DruNature11 ай бұрын
same, I grew up in Jamaica and seeing the vast array of infinite stars was just a daily thing. It's really quiet sad and scary. A few times a year I get out to the country now and catch some stars, but it's like once in a decade I can see the milkway clearly! :(
@azmanabdula11 ай бұрын
@@DruNature Aussie here Go a little bit away from the cities and its magical Your eyes adjust and it seems bright
@BlueRidgeBubble10 ай бұрын
I grew up in rural Wisconsin and it was largely the same as your experience as a child People just cannot comprehend how huge the US is and how much empty space there actually is I was 40 minutes from any city of 10,000+ lol
@qccanales861010 ай бұрын
same thing en Mexico very very small town with no electricity at night. Also the "no noise" you "hear" at night made me nervous as a kid. @@BlueRidgeBubble
@dankeplace10 ай бұрын
I grew up in the north pole, the stars are frozen there.
@OfentseMwaseFilms11 ай бұрын
Loved every second of this video.
@Rorobeuh11 ай бұрын
@@Ben-e7ohe’s too what?
@1cbc8111 ай бұрын
@@Ben-e7o He’s too what…
@eve__________11 ай бұрын
This video makes me sad tbh
@OfentseMwaseFilms11 ай бұрын
@@eve__________ It’s very sad. But I’ve seen the sky in in full glory in Iceland. Plus we had Aurora lights as well💯 it’s trully Beautiful!
@eve__________11 ай бұрын
@@OfentseMwaseFilms I don’t think I’ll die happy if i don’t see any of Auroras in my life. Ive see the perfect night sky on mountains before and it’s so stunning.
@thesenate184419 күн бұрын
I once visited the Sahara desert and camped there overnight. I have never seen a sky that amazing in my life. Unfortunately no picture I couldve taken would ever capture the view I saw, so it lives on in my memory
@SxmplySnxwy9 ай бұрын
I remember going camping with my family when I was a child, after we finished setting up our tents and stuff and making dinner, I looked up to the sky and had to grab my chair to make sure I didn't fall backwarrds from the beautiful sight I was seeing. We weren't anywhere close to a big city, so you could see the milky way clearly...truly one of my favorite childhood memories.
@siamboiphymes599911 ай бұрын
I can still remember the sky I saw after a rain with no pollution and light on our village I can no longer have that feeling when I looked at the sky anymore
@asap44511 ай бұрын
How did they beauty look? 😭😭😭
@renjiaow374211 ай бұрын
@@asap445 Can chime in here, it's magnificent. I'm guessing they probably were close to Bortle 1 when they saw the skies. I saw them on Bortle 4-5 and it was still mesmerizing. It really made me feel insignificant in that moment seeing the Milky Way.
@asap44511 ай бұрын
@@renjiaow3742 it might be heaven feeling
@renjiaow374211 ай бұрын
@@asap445Yeah it really just grounds you in that moment that we're all 8 billion people on a rock in the middle of nowhere..
@asap44511 ай бұрын
@@renjiaow3742 you have Twitter?
@Po_goes_brrr11 ай бұрын
I used to imagine what it would be like if we could see the galactic core like in games and movies before I learned that we actually could without light pollution. I still remember the day I learned how much of the milkyway is actually visible but city lights have ruined it and it was a mix of emotions ranging from frustration that I was unable to see it but also excitement that it is possible.
@zekebrunt10 ай бұрын
look up darkest places in the US (or wherever you live) there are some great places you can still go to with very little light
@That_One_MF_010 ай бұрын
@@zekebruntyes but still that was not as magical as the night sky hundreds of years ago.
@breatheair68479 ай бұрын
@@That_One_MF_0 that may be true but you should at least try and get an experience somewhat like it. It’s magical, not as magical as before but soon enough it’ll not be magical at all.
@jens-kristiantofthansen93768 ай бұрын
@@zekebrunt there are still lots of places where you can experience proper dark-sky conditions. Not in quick reach, but it's out there.
@captaindestruction933228 күн бұрын
I remember when I was a teenager going to help a friends Mom who was elderly clean up/maintain their land. It was a 2 hour drive from the city I was living in. I remember looking up in the night sky and being amazed. It wasn’t so far in the country to be able to see the Milky Way but enough to see at least double the amount of stars I typically would see at home. Made me wonder what I could see at home without all the light pollution.
@DOKKAEEEBIII10 ай бұрын
I’m in the Navy and when we’re underway, the sky above the ocean is just the most gorgeous thing you could ever see. look up the night sky in the ocean and you can see it recorded from cargo ships. jaw dropping
@Vealfinite11 ай бұрын
Admit it, space is beautiful but can be sad too at the same time
@knightaren557711 ай бұрын
I admit
@sanyogitachauhan915111 ай бұрын
i admit
@Isaaaaaaa54311 ай бұрын
No, space is beatiful, we make it sad.
@Jamaldidntdoit11 ай бұрын
What’s there to admit
@metrofernandez436411 ай бұрын
More like scary
@user-lp4ii9zm3v11 ай бұрын
What an inspiration you are! I myself am in love with the space and sometimes I even ask myself and think about the things you share with us and you make me realize how tiny we are but in the same time it is quite scary. Love you man. Greetings from Bulgaria🇧🇬
@ankitSharma-uo6zf11 ай бұрын
you are the universe bro.. chill... yes you.. you feel yourself separated but in reality you are not
@hariharan_17_kpm2 ай бұрын
Finally Atleast someone talked about it 😢😢
@j.lahtinen752510 ай бұрын
I remember when I was a teenager (I'm 47 now), one winter I was at a friend's cabin way outside of any significant sources of light pollution. I went to fetch water from a hole made in the ice (the cabin didn't have running water back then), and I happened to look up. It was a clear night, and I was so amazed at the sight of the field of stars above that I just stood there for I don't know how long, gawking at it. I haven't see the sky quite like that since.
@CelestialsStorm11 ай бұрын
Coming home from an amusement park we got lost in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. It was an incredibly clear night, and I saw so many stars. I managed to get us to pull over on the side of the road and stargaze for a while. It’s one of my favorite memories, and basically got me obsessed with the stars
@jeltoninc.854211 ай бұрын
I have 60 acres of land in the middle of nowhere that has been in my family since the 1700s basically… my grandfather would take me out there when I was a child and show me all kinds of amazing celestial events. I’ve seen comets and all kinds of other interesting things there. On some nights with no moon, it will be so dark you cannot even see your hand in front of your face. It’s really amazing how different our experience can be with no light pollution.
@n_asmo10 ай бұрын
Damn.. I didn't expect to get this emotional. The line about the Moon and Galileo absolutely touched me. The night sky-it has the celestial bodies that our ancestors, everybody that we have read about in history books, and every single creature that has looked up into the night sky have seen. I might be overthinking, but damn, I feel like from now on, every time I look at the moon, I'll remind myself of that. I genuinely felt bonding with every human being and creature that has existed here on this Pale Blue Dot.
@NattyNuke10 ай бұрын
Something out there calls to me, each night I die a little more inside knowing I’ll never be able to see the night sky in its grandest capacity.
@hijacked_horizons11 ай бұрын
This channel has completely changed my perspective on things, thanks Kobi!
@Finn_MacCool11 ай бұрын
It's made you afraid of light. It's made you distrust light. It's made you believe those evil capitalist with their evil lights want to take the stars away from you. You are such a robot.
@ParalyticAngel11 ай бұрын
You are right. As a youngster in the 90's I could CLEARLY see the majesty of the Milky Way at nights at the beaches in Greece. Since then I have never seen it again like this. So sad for us all and especially for younger generations. I really miss hard the nights at the beach, where we played guitar around the fire. We lay on the sand looked up to the night sky and told us stories man. Imagined the story by a background of the Milky Way. What a nice picture better than everything we can reach by electronics. We must get darker for being human again.
@shenzixirgs815211 ай бұрын
True, I’ve never seen the night sky and i only see them from photos. I want to see the sky in person. I feel like we’ve lost so much of who we are, maybe as an inevitable result of our development. But sometimes it’s good to know that I’m a way, we are who we were.
@ParalyticAngel11 ай бұрын
@@shenzixirgs8152 True words mate. Our industrial and electronic development is such an enemy against nature, we slightly should get alarmed. While we are so intelligent to generate even Holograms of Tupac Shakur singing a concert, we should be intelligent enough to use the earths resources far more wise. We have just this one HOME and we should treat the earth like a baby. Money and capitalism is nothing against mother earths extremely life supporting systems we even explored. Such as its magnetic field, its seasons... Even without these, there would be no any life on here. Can you believe, my grandpa in Greece had a donkey as a vehicle?^^ He was a farmer and lived fully natural. The moste electronic things he had, was a radio, later a TV and off course a very old refrigerator.^^ That's it. Ah okay, and a telephone. He even plants the most his family eats on his fields and all were fine.^^ And this was not a village in Greece, no he lived in a small city. I am so happy to know and have seen such a lifestyle so me easier can compare the right direction we human had to go. For people of today would say, Whaaat, even no Internet.^^ What a lame life. I can say, he was happy and every other guys who lived in these times were MUCH HAPPIER than we all are. It was true life and everybody was acting very human to each other and no one had any burnout syndrome, like nowadays. We as mankind should paddle back to the roots.^^ And yes, then we would dimm down the lights of our cities and finally can see again with our bare eyes the majestic beauty of the Milky Way.
@jout73810 ай бұрын
Yes I was wondering why I see less and less stars at night time outside. Now I only typically see few, when I look at the night sky. I used to seeing like over dozen, when I was kid ten years ago. Now I maybe get the reason.
@jout73810 ай бұрын
Yes I was wondering why I see less and less stars at night time outside. Now I only typically see few, when I look at the night sky. I used to seeing like over dozen, when I was kid ten years ago. Now I maybe get the reason why.
@jout73810 ай бұрын
I remember, when I used to go sometimes jogging at night in local park and I hate how much light the streetlamp next to me gives, when im jogging, when I enjoy jogging in the darkness not being seen, when these streetlamps are so annoying with how much light they actually give and how much they direct the attention towrads me. Powerful streetlamps are also the reason we propably see less stars outside at night time anymore. I just imagined how much better sleep I would get, if I slept under the sky of stars, when I have had problems since childhood to get sleep. One reason might be bit bad mood, but maybe its also, because there is so less stars outside anymore at night time.
@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind10 ай бұрын
I live in a area that is not very urbanised.. I have never seen the "real sky" or the milky way in all my live.. I wish there was at least 1 day a year in which we reduce light pollution so everyone can for once see the real sky.. that day would be way more important than any holiday to me.
@myprofilepictureisafish10 ай бұрын
I remember looking at the stars every night in a blanket with the window open, I miss those days.
@jerryisnotgreat11 ай бұрын
I am living in Singapore and light pollution seems to have gotten worse while I am still growing up. When I was young, I can visualise the glowing planets and barely see the flickering stars, especially when I cycled to a place where it is mostly taken over by nature and... mosquitos. I was absolutely amazed of the visible dots and it hit me by researching more about space. Currently in 2023, the night sky seemed to be purely dark and I unfortunately am unable to see the stars which used to be visible, but planets dimly lit. Space definitely intrigued me a lot and I am genuinely disappointed that light pollution ruined other generations to even view the sky. In conclusion, the world will eventually end to darkness... :(
@comrademoshi102811 ай бұрын
hey a fellow singaporean on youtube! but i completely agree with what you said. nowadays the only bright objects i can see at night in the sky are just satellites, the moon, and maybe one or two dim flickering stars. it’s a sad reality that i wont ever be able to accept…
@pixazelz10 ай бұрын
overpopulation really sucks :(
@PH7NTOM2 ай бұрын
@@pixazelz This isn't because of overpopulation, and if it is, get smarter with how we place, design, manufacture, and educate people on lights. You appear to be relying on *appeal to emotion* in most of your comments on this video.
@pillford422611 ай бұрын
I was blessed with a chance to see a completely dark sky once. It was a very rural part of Alabama I was visiting my aunt once, and a hurricane was rolling through (hence why we were visiting) the power was out for 2 weeks. And for 2 weeks while I was there, we saw the Milky Way in it's uninterrupted entirety. Stunning.
@mnlight83089 ай бұрын
This has been one of my biggest wishes to see the sky without light pollution, this year in December I'll make sure to visit a remote area, I know its hard to find somewhere without light pollution, but even a lot more than usual can be so pretty.
@Snuzzled9 күн бұрын
So I wasn't imagining it. The night sky really was prettier when I was a kid. I thought it was just childhood nostalgia but nope.
@ittybittyrampagingcommittee7 ай бұрын
I remember being at my grandma’s house way back when I was a kid, maybe in middle school? She lived in rural Michigan, her neighbors were cows living miles away. And I could see the Milky Way galaxy from her front lawn. Unfortunately, now there are windmills and other things set in place nearby and you can’t see the galaxy anymore, just the stars. …Hurts to know I may never see that again.
@renjiaow374211 ай бұрын
I drove out 40 minutes on a clear night to the country side to see the perseid meteor shower. It was about 4-5 on the Bortle scale but it was very humbling. Even though I couldn't see the arm of the Milky Way in 100% clarity it was still utterly breathtaking. I really want to visit a dark site to see it in it's true beauty.
@xItzSpruce11 ай бұрын
Same i goed to look perseids too. I saw milkyway too
@brandonsheets188311 ай бұрын
First time I saw it I actually got dizzy, it’s the same feeling as standing on a ledge. Amazing thing to see.
@Spaceresearchesbytanuja11 ай бұрын
This video brought tears to my eyes 👀 because I've seen stars scattered here and there in the sky. Currently I'm in 8 grade in south India, and I want to go to New Zealand and see the dark sky. Imagine seeing those beautiful stars, constellations, planets, galaxies every night 🌙 I would not sleep. BTW I'm from the community 🙂
@ayiyehyobin881711 ай бұрын
Me too I am from North East India 9th grade.
@the.littlest.toaster11 ай бұрын
Just go to some rural part of your country away from the city.
@Spaceresearchesbytanuja11 ай бұрын
@@the.littlest.toaster nice idea 💡
@matherman11115 күн бұрын
Id also go to the southern hemisphere to see the southern cross and other cool southern sky constellations like argo navis!
@snoozlewoozle568110 ай бұрын
This is really sad. I never thought about that like this. You changed my mind. But you gave also a glimpse of hope. Thank you.
@MitsukiDiablew9 ай бұрын
I didn't know how beyond lucky I was to be one of the few people to see the entire night sky in darkness. I remember looking up and seeing the beauty of the night sky with the Milky Way and countless of stars right above me. The amount of stars in the night sky even illuminated the ground (which is crazy to think about) so, imagine what a full Moon night was like. How I wish I could go back in time and treasure that moment. It will forever live in my mind. For those wondering, I used to live in one of the Caribbean islands and more than 20 years ago the powergrid on the island was very very bad. So, there were nights where the whole island lost power completely and then, a few minutes later...a different kind of wonder would be right above us. Things will never be the same again because I've heard things haven't gotten better (more light pollution) than when I lived there 20+ years ago. 😞
@BigBangTheoryIsALie11 ай бұрын
As a man who lived in 1520's along with Magellan, watching the night sky while at the sea is the best of the best moments while listening to sea shanties below the deck!
@nfglegos11 ай бұрын
You are over 500 years old?!?!?!?
@PiracyMan11 ай бұрын
ye, I know this guy, met him back in 1692@@nfglegos
@hillbilly204611 ай бұрын
@@nfglegospffft thats nothing im 673 years old and you should have seen how how beautiful it is in the 1400s
@nfglegos11 ай бұрын
@@hillbilly2046 673? Pffft! I can't even remember when I was that young. I'm 14 billion years old. I remember the big bang. I remember when the universe wasn't invented yet.
@EL1T3_Zach11 ай бұрын
That’s nothing. I am 4 billion years old and the most beautiful skies come from them
@vraxos922011 ай бұрын
this video made me feel so many emotions, and none of them were bad. holy cow kobi you are a legend
@Angealls5 ай бұрын
I live in utah. A place synonymous with astronomy. Weather it be its martian looking desserts. Or a spaceship that landed here with samples from an asteroid... Almost no one lives out here besides salt lake. It is sad. Despite almost no one living out here you can barely see the buetifull milky way due to the light pollution from cites far away. Like denver, Pheonix, Las vegas, or even L.A! Light polution travels far. And when I moved here I was absolutly thrilled to go see the milky way. Then I moved here and well...I can barely see Sirius. It infuriates me... I came from a city with tons of light pollution as an astronomer, excited to see the milky way for the first time in my life!!! Then I get here and... the sky is empty. It shows how far light pollution travels. If I had moved to utah maby a year or two earleir I definitely could have seen it. I almost cried knowing my only chance at seeing the milky way, well. Wasnt even a chance at all😢
@HarmonicVector10 ай бұрын
I have actually seen the Milky Way out in Camp Aquehonga as a Boy Scout. Being a Ten Mile River camp, the technology grid in the area is very scarce, and getting a signal is near impossible, so virtually, no light pollution exists: you and your Troop are at the mercy of the wild (and the Aquehonga staff), and one day, I noticed that one of my troop adults went out to the Athletics field, and being a repeat insomniac, I followed in, and everyone else noticed me. Eventually, we all saw what the fuss was about. The entire universe was viewable. We could see through the Orion arm, and the multitude of stars that orbited around the galaxy. It was beautiful.
@Toasterpuggaming11 ай бұрын
This channel is incredible
@nothingtodo240911 ай бұрын
I literally had goosebumps at all the breat taking pictures. Just beautiful. The most i can see here in my house at night are the constellation that looks like a cup with 2stars on top, 3 in the milldle slanting and 2 on the bottom. I thank you for educating me about just how beautiful our nigh skies really are.
@Wyatt12511 ай бұрын
Yeah that's the little dipper
@EmilyTienne2 күн бұрын
I live in the rural Midwest where when I was a kid most farms had ONE security lamp for their out buildings. Now most have 4-5 super-bright LED lamps per farm. The Milky Way is now barely visible where it was once easy to see.
@Augusto958823 күн бұрын
Recently moved from a big city(São Paulo-Bortle 9) to a rural area, and even only having a Bortle 3 sky i can already see the Milky Way with my naked eyes in moonless nights.
@Gamermax1611 ай бұрын
Am a fan of star gazing but I was never sure of the reason why I couldn't see the milky way just like how other people would see it in other parts of the world, I would only see it in video games like Minecraft with shaders and it felt so calming looking at, but this video has really inspired me on what we are more capable of being than wasting such spectacular opportunities of seeing the wonders of the universe Thanks🌌
@ElenarMT11 ай бұрын
Deep rural South Africa in the 80s or 90s, I took seeing the entire Expanse for granted. It was spectacular. Rural North Wales in winter has some spectacular night skies. But I went to South Africa in 2019,and in the middle of the Karoo at 2 am, got out the car and looked up. I gasped. The night sky is truly awe inspiring. I can see how LA residents were over awed. Great video Kobi, and 100% kudos for picking a great sponsor
@navaneethads56617 ай бұрын
This is seriously my favorite video on KZfaq
@MiddleSumatra4 ай бұрын
0:07 yes i see this kind of sky back in 1999 when i was a kid. so beuatiful its almost like a river in the sky. i live near a forest with my parent where electricity in not that common during that times. Now, i hardly see sky like that anymore.
@iam.mystic11 ай бұрын
To be honest, I never thought I would see it, but when I went to Bampa, Uttarakhand (770 feet above sea level), it was truly breathtaking. I lay on the mountain grass and gazed up at the sky. I still remember that scene perfectly, even though it's been ages since I was there. P.S: I and my friends found a pack of wolves on the other side of frozen river, glad we made it out safely 💀
@sakibmullick11 ай бұрын
like a poem
@JustCallMeAarav11 ай бұрын
Uttarakhand? That's still not a true sky. Most likely a bortle 4 to 5. India doesn't have bortle 1 or 2 skies besides in Kashmir and ladakh. And they are barely bortle 2. Sorry to break it to u, that's the night sky that our ancestors saw.
@jenniferobrennan359911 ай бұрын
I grew up in a very rural area, and now live in a large metropolitan city. I miss the night sky very much! I hope we change our city planning/lighting policies to restore our view of the stars. Great video, thank you! (from a member of your IG community)
@catdisc53044 күн бұрын
The irony of going into a dark sky reserve and setting up lights for filming a video.
@cringycoolkid15422 ай бұрын
I’ve never seen the stars in the sky, and that scares me to know that you could see so much. I only ever thought the night sky was a few stars sprinkled around. I’ll make it my life’s goal to see it.
@Xiuying.official11 ай бұрын
I LOVE this video! I’m adding this spot to my bucket list. I’ve always loved seeing the stars, but when I walk outside I sometimes, rarely, see more than 10 stars. I do hope and wish that I go to that spot one day, and see the true beauties of our galaxy! I love space so much, and it will always fascinate me
@wildflower139711 ай бұрын
I have been telling my daughter for years that I want to move somewhere that I can see the stars again. Growing up in New Mexico, there was not much light pollution. As a child I remember going out into the backyard to lay in the grass and watch the stars often. I never got tired of how beautiful and mesmerizing it was. Now I fear that even if I go somewhere dark, all the satellites and space debris will ruin the view. I don't remember us giving corporations permission to clog the night sky. Now it seems anyone who wants to and has funding can send something up to orbit and block the view. The international space station never bothered me, as it would take a while to circle the earth and fly past again. Also, it was an international sciece project, and I was proud we worked together. I sincerely hope our governments and everyone else start doing what we need to to protect the planet. Bringing the darkness back would hopefully inspire more people to care.
@claudeheinrich361310 ай бұрын
iv never seen a starry night sky sadly, even though I really want to
@wildflower139710 ай бұрын
@@claudeheinrich3613 I am so sad to hear that. I hope someday you will be able to, because it's profoundly beautiful.
@UnfunnyMan59089 күн бұрын
You would require an extreme amount of space debris and satellites to even see it let alone clog up the night sky so you dont have to worry about that.
@wildflower13979 күн бұрын
@UnfunnyMan5908 Actually, scientists are already complaining because ground based telescopes are struggling to see past the debris and satellites. They require a high degree of detail and precision, and the closer something is, the more of the view in the distance it blocks. Personally, I already watch the international space station as it tracks across the sky each lap around, and that is with nothing more than bare eyesight.
@UnfunnyMan59089 күн бұрын
@@wildflower1397 wait really? I thought it would've been too small to see.
@Kerbalfeet10 ай бұрын
So I live in North Dakota and I search up, "Where Can I see the MIlky Way at Night" and just said "Theodore National Park, North Dakota" and now I am heading over there tonight!
@krisneedshelp110 ай бұрын
i think it would be really cool if we had a day where we all collectively turned off our lights to see the stars, even if just for a few minutes
@mike-._10 ай бұрын
For that to happen the lights on 1 side of the earth should be off (or maybe just using the techniques used in the dark night reserves) for an entire night because a few minutes will still have lit up night times due to the fact that light needs time to go away It would be 2 or 3 nights if it's a worldwide event because of one side of the Earth being daytime and stuff
@BasicallySai11 ай бұрын
Another amazing video yet again! Thanks Kobi!
@AstroKobi11 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@TON__618.11 ай бұрын
@@AstroKobiYou are my favorite youtuber
@iamarizonaball264211 ай бұрын
@@AstroKobihello. I genuinely cannot produce melatonin naturally. Even in the darkest of skies.
@Sol_is_the_name_of_the_sun11 ай бұрын
100% agreed, we, as humans, should stop lighting up everything! I really want to go to New Zealand to see a true night sky. Me, living in the Netherlands can't find good night skies anywhere close. I wish people would care more about the night skies and the animals that navigate using light.
@Universal_Bacon11 ай бұрын
I'm from nz, can confirm that the sky is good
@DarioBans11 ай бұрын
I have exact the same also from the netherlands
@pbg202511 ай бұрын
Humans do so many things that have major impacts on all parts of nature and we are so conceited that we don't ever reverse course
@45H_Animates11 ай бұрын
i live in the netherlands too, i also want to go to new zealand and have that same feeling as a kid, (maybe even better.)
@Qiwriiiz11 ай бұрын
This is 100% true I live in NewZeland we see so many stars each night
@MrWeiserrr10 ай бұрын
I’m from the UK and went Thailand when I was 16. The landscape I witness with my very own eyes was breath taking ! You ever heard the saying “You got to see it to no believe it” You truly have to see things to take in it’s overwhelming beauty.
@wyv3rn14 күн бұрын
I live on the edge of a small city, have for a majority of my life, and being able to go outside and watch the stars and northern lights is one of my favourite pass times Its not a perfect view but I cherish the fact that the light pollution is minor enough that I can see the stars in a way many may never get to
@anokymus11 ай бұрын
Bro is casually telling us that light won't allow us to see
@mr.nothappy30111 ай бұрын
underrated comment
@educatingspace11 ай бұрын
A very important message Kobi. Well done on your video. I’ve been very fortunate to visit Tekapo in New Zealand and totally agree that seeing the Milky Way without light pollution is incredible!
@nikewalker9611 ай бұрын
Hey same here! I just came back from NZ trip last week, stayed a night at mount Aoraki, and saw the most beautiful night sky I've ever seen in my life
@danizg90815 ай бұрын
I know one time we went to the outskirts of our town just to go have a fire and eat corn at night, and there weren’t any lights out there and omg we could see so many stars that we’ve never seen while in town, we were so amazed by it just imagine having no lights at all! Also when we go to the beach in Texas you can see stars too and lots of shooting stars, I remember we camped out on the beach one time hearing the waves all night looking up on the sky was amazing!
@johjoh927010 ай бұрын
You can still see the milky way where I live at during some clear nights, I do remember seeing it much better when I was a kid, but it never occured to me that some actually never saw it before, holy, that must have been a scary situation to be in considering they discovered it for the first time after an earthquake 😅
@lightthroughdark11 ай бұрын
We need to start an anti-light pollution charity.
@tacituskilgore82011 ай бұрын
Exactly, light pollution is gonna get worse if we don’t do something, at least protesting would wake some people up. These things actually matter instead of the climate change and global warming propaganda…
@Azillia11 ай бұрын
Its not light pollution Light pollution is a thing, but its minor compared to other forms of pollution Especially with green house gasses from fossile fuels and ect. Those would result in the sky being less clear to see, due to the gasses Also, you know what it also results in? THE DESRUCTION OF OUR OZONE LAYER, WHICH PROTECTS US FROM UV RAYS and you know what uv rays does? IT CAUSES CANCER, ITS RADIATION Light pollution is less of an issue
@dbyspae12211 ай бұрын
Unfortunately that probably wouldn't work
@jugemujugemugokonosurikire473511 ай бұрын
That's not feasible at all. We need to see.
@nurdinvsm95311 ай бұрын
and the death rate will go up to 99.9 % pure
@ceciliaa11 ай бұрын
Your videos are of such great quality, I really appreciate all of the time and effort you put into it! Thank you so much. Not only is your content entertaining, it's also very interesting and informative.
@danielcrum6073Күн бұрын
I propose we should definitely make a holiday where everybody turns out all of the external lights so that we may be able to see for just one night if none at all
@RandomUsername101s10 ай бұрын
I never even knew the entire space could be visible. I lived my entire life knowing the skies are either blue or black.
@sprocket44211 ай бұрын
im a thirteen year old from singapore and ive never seen the milky way before. I remeber a few years ago you could still see a few stars twinkling in the sky but no the only lights in the sky are planes
@SixBowlSage11 ай бұрын
I'm a teenager living rural North Island - New Zealand, the sky I see when I come home from work is around Bortle 2, recently I saw the glowing arm of the milky way for the first time. Some people do not know what they are missing out on, looking up and seeing the best artwork of all time.
@GarrettAD60Күн бұрын
I live right in the Australian outback. That’s my night sky every night, the huge Milky Way.
@Suiteren.19 күн бұрын
I went on a cruise a month ago. I saw the sky truly in the middle of the ocean, no land for hundreds of miles. It was amazing.
@tecnoticboy447911 ай бұрын
I have never seen the arm of Milky way or even comets, I like in Delhi (Indian's most light polluted area) and I really really wish to one day see the night sky in ita full glory, I'll work hard towards achieving that dream, thank you for sharing this experience with us.
@renjiaow374211 ай бұрын
Look up a light pollution map where you live. Maybe you can find a location where it's about 4-5. You won't see it 100% but you'll still see at least parts of the Milky Way's arm.
@JustCallMeAarav11 ай бұрын
@@renjiaow3742you don't know the air pollution near Delhi?
@JustCallMeAarav11 ай бұрын
@@renjiaow3742and don't u know the traffic here? It takes 3 hours to go 30 km, in which u still can't see any star due to delhi ncr. Ncr is an urban planning board, if u wanna know u can search it up, it's 60000 sq km, and it's all full of cities.
@AllanDavisArt11 ай бұрын
I remember going to Ayers Rock 20 years ago and I have honestly never seen so many stars in my life. Was truly an incredible experience.
@jacky4454 күн бұрын
I used to grow up in the European village where they turned off street lights after between 11:00pm and 4:00am to save on electricity and it was so nice to look into the sky, it looked like silver dust when sun shines on it.
@ratsmacker811311 ай бұрын
It makes me sad that we'll probably never see the milky way outside of reserves. I'm genuinely surprised that the majority of earth's human population hasn't seen the milky way, it's mind boggling. I have been lucky enough to go travel many places (thanks to my parents!) and see the milky way. I have hope that this situation will improve, but i doubt that will happen..
@pixazelz10 ай бұрын
there is really a problem with our current population and developpement vision if regular people can't enjoy something as simple as the sky .
@PieeM10 ай бұрын
@@pixazelz Oh yeah, I live in a big city and one day I came to a family friend in a remote village with my relatives. We arrived at night, I looked up and damn it, there were just a billion stars and colorful galaxy nebulae! I told my parents that I could see the galaxy, but they laughed and said that it was impossible to see it and probably it was something else. Damn, up to this point, I myself doubted that this was possible :(
@mh-um1df11 ай бұрын
Electricity is so bad here that it doesn't even come for days but i think i m actually grateful to it. It's summer, it's hot, all my family is outside with a mat on the grass we're all looking up to a beautiful night sky with fireflies all around
@OMEGA-STUDIOS-X7 ай бұрын
The way he speaks makes it sound like he’s in a documentary
@JonathanLukeAvery10 ай бұрын
Whoa this blew my mind. I’ve always sworn I had memories of seeing the night sky out in the wilderness brighter and more spectacular than I’ve ever been able to see since. I live in a big city so I don’t regularly see the night sky from remote areas. But I remember going on a school retreat to a camp out on a ranch far from any city (probably 19 years ago or so) and the sky was so spectacular it left a big impression on me. Like I was always chasing that experience every time I would get out of the city I would want to look up at the night sky to see if I could see it that way again. No matter what, as I got older, I always felt that even though the sky view from a place like the mountains was obviously much brighter than in the city, it never lived up to that childhood memory. This explains so much. Sad that I’ll never see it that way again
@jens-kristiantofthansen937611 ай бұрын
I'm in Melbourne, Australia and the light pollution is pretty terrible. Still, once you get to the outer suburbs you can generally see that the Milky Way is there. If you go another 20-40km out, you can see a lot more and easily identify the Milky Way. Having said that, true dark-sky viewing opportunities requires a longer trip but if you go Northwest from here for a few hundred kilometres you will see marvellous things. I do find it tragic just how comprehensively we have removed ourselves from viewing the night sky in any meaningful way.
@The_butler_did_it119411 ай бұрын
This is the video Kobi, this is an absolutely incrediblely well done video mate. I feel like I'm watching a full documentary. Smashed it out the park. You have tonnes of great videos and they just keep getting better. Peace from Brisbane Australia aswell 👊
@Jamrge7 күн бұрын
We should have a day once a year where at night, every single light is turned off
@lakshitapanwar274511 ай бұрын
When I used to visit my grandpa in the inner city during summer as a kid, there was this issue that around 7 p.m. the entire area's electricity used to go out due to some electoral disputes. We used to sleep on the terrace, facing the sky to get a better exposure to the air. I remember how spectacular and magnificent the sky looked, shining bright in it's glory. Infact, I used to spend the entire night gazing at the sky most of the times. And when I used to return to my place and go upstairs, it would disappoint me so much. It's very sad how we've lost the map of our very existence.
@kshitijjassal102411 ай бұрын
Hey Kobi. Saw your post on the IG podcast and straight up went to see it. I've always been amazed by the night skies for as long as I can remember. You're absolutely right here. The situation around my hometown in the Northern part of India is the same. I remember taking a shot of the Milky way from my balcony 7-8 years ago, which eventually never happened again. But yeah, where I live, just a little ahead, say about 70km, I can see it with my naked eye in all its glory. Anyway, thanks for creating such videos. Love it.
@gneu15277 күн бұрын
CaveMen seeing the entire universe because they didn't have light aside from campfires: checkmate ooga booga
@caseymoore475915 күн бұрын
The view of the sky at the Grand Canyon was the first time I truly was able to see the Milky Way. It was amazing
@golamsamdani761711 ай бұрын
Well. It's definately in my bucket list now. Maybe in 4/5 years,I will be able to go there. I never saw a sky like this and it will be a life long never forgetting moment.🌟🌌
@JustCallMeAarav11 ай бұрын
Yeah in 4 or 5 years u might have to go in the middle of the Pacific Ocean just to see it
@gauravanshkumar394911 ай бұрын
Looking in the sky like these gives us another level of felling and questions which can't be described by word....❤
@chorizojoe82827 ай бұрын
I was recently making a road trip through the American west coast and I drove through southern utah. The skies were pretty bright but I was honestly disturbed when I noticed a giant bright light cloud after I exited the canyon past ST. George - that light cloud ended up being Las Vegas’s light pollution some 150 miles away. It was honestly disappointing because I was expecting to see a beautiful sight while driving through the desert during the night.
@TMCNJ2 күн бұрын
The borough I live in in London has installed down facing LED lamps and they are automatically dimmed for 6 hours in the dead of night. In clear nights, I can see a fair bit of stars from my back garden. Nothing compared to being out in the countryside but it’s an improvement
@Latvian0711 ай бұрын
This guy's voice.. I could listen to him forever.. Australian accent is one of my favourites😊
@shyper1711 ай бұрын
AstroKobi: "We can get serious health issues because of light pollution." Also AstroKobi: "Why is this important?"
@moshemezrahi15923 күн бұрын
I never saw a sky with more than 50 stars in my life. I live in new York and it’s so bad, I hate it here, I wish I was in a place so separated from the world spurounded by nature
@austeyen56283 күн бұрын
same with LA, its one of my dreams to travel to one of these places with low light polution and just be immersed. I need to travel soon before it gets worse
@moshemezrahi15923 күн бұрын
@@austeyen5628 same
@KepiGalКүн бұрын
I used to live in Arizona. Many times we would be out in the desert, in complete awe of the stars. I've seen the Milky Way. It makes me sad to know that future generations will only have pictures to look at.
@KeyClavis11 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, I loved going to my grandparent's farm because I got to see the milky way. Their farm was in southeast Idaho, in high-altitude desert. No air pollution, light pollution, clouds, or close neighbors. Stars spread so thickly across the sky that I had a hard time picking out even the stars I knew, like Orion's belt. I regret not being able to see that anymore.
@pigghey559211 ай бұрын
Man this actually makes me want to cry. I love space and on the regular go out to watch the stars or meteor rains. Please tell me that atleast there will be some places you can go to see our galaxy in the future?