why are the nights not as dark as they used to be years ago?

Question

ni i live in the country,and the nights used to be so dark, but now it seems it is only pitch dark if it is heavy cloud cover

Answer 1

it is because of tiny particals basicaly part of the poluttion which keeps on floating in the air which get charged by sunlite in days time and emit some amount of energy back into atmoshphere.

Answer 2

Electricity!

There is a lot of "light pollution" in the developed world, all the home lights and street lights and so on that stay on all through the night.

If you have the opportunity to look at the night sky a looong way from any civilization (Australian outback, Tannu Tuva, or Arizona for example), you will notice hundreds more stars.

Answer 3

I don't know but I was wondering the same thing.
When I was a kid the nights were deep velvety blue and clear. But a few years ago the sky ,was like,very light,even at three in the morning,it was light blue and I could see very well.It wasn't daylight,but itwas a very LIGHT NITE,and it persists on and off.Might be El Nino.

Answer 4

Because the light that we generates from every city town etc.
Still if you go to places big enough to be away from does source of light, you will see that the night is a s darker as usual.

Answer 5

Urban sprawl.

People are moving further and further away from bigger cities. When they do, they bring house lights, street lights, the corner store lights, new grocery stores lights, etc, etc. More lights dilute the darkness.

Answer 6

I dont know where you live, but they are dark as hell here in the U.P.of Michigan..
Do you live in a CITY?
If so, its all the accumulated smog..and the City lights reflecting off of it.

Answer 7

Light pollution.

Answer 8

too many buildings with the lights on at night..too many cars and street lights...go to the mountains..blackest nights you could ever see

Answer 9

what??? i aint seen no change in night and day yet its still the same, where u living at ???