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Stars are disappearing from our night sky. New study reveals light pollution is growing almost 10% per year, drastically reducing how many stars we can see with the naked eye.

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Stars Are Vanishing From the Night Sky. Here's Why A phenomenon called "skyglow" is stealing our celestial view, and the impact is far more dramatic when observed by the unaided human eye.

Stars are disappearing from the night sky in front of our eyes, astronomers have warned. Every year, the sky gets as much as 10 per cent brighter, according to a major new study.

For many, a star-filled sky provides an irreplaceable sense of awe. Light pollution also interferes with the daily cycle of light and dark that plants and animals use to regulate sleep ...

And now, they've just released a new study, published in the journal Science, in which they found that the sky has been getting brighter at an average rate of 9.6 percent each year since 2011.

The brightest star in the night sky is the Sirius star. According to NASA, it is over 20 times brighter than our sun and twice as massive, though it might not appear that way to the naked eye.

The Milky Way in the dark night sky with the illuminating stars, part of the galaxy that contains our Solar System as seen from a sandy beach in Halkidiki, Greece. NurPhoto via Getty Images.

That’s the red giant star Arcturus, the brightest star in the evening sky this month. It’s more than 20 times the diameter of our sun and around 37 light-years away.

The visibility of the night sky in New Zealand appears to be following a similar trend. Between 2012 and 2021, the area affected by light pollution grew at a rate of 4.2% above the global average .