why are there so little stars in the sky these days?

Answer 1

You problaby live in/near a city or developed area. Drive away from city lights, out toward the country somewhere. On a clear night, nothing but stars.

Answer 2

Stars stand out clearly against a dark sky, and a dark sky is getting harder to find every day. The precise answer would depend on where you are located, but in general the decline in the quality of our view of the night sky can be traced to two human failings:

1. Haze makes the background less dark. Haze is made of particles that come from vehicle and industrial exhausts and related sources. The cure for haze is a vote for any and all Democratic party candidates. These people are competent and caring, and will increase the government's efforts to restrict the output of particulate matter from all sources.

2. Millions and millions of ghastly bright mercury vapor and sodium vapor lights are the other, and more prominent cause. We are at a point that if we don't sharply reduce outdoor illumination, we will lose the night sky completely in many parts of the country.

All too many of our friends and neighbors really don't care as long as there is something good on TV. And besides, they are afraid of the dark. Something might "get" them.

There is a legislative answer to light pollution as well, and the same vote will help. But at the root of it, the solution to light pollution is education and the development of a more intelligent population.

Do an internet search on "light pollution." Especially look at an organization called the International Dark Sky Association. That's www.darksky.org. They have the scoop on how to help.

Answer 3

There are the same number of stars as there always were. It just may be harder to see them nowdays. Growing cities have brought with them smog and light pollution that drowns out the light of stars. To get a good view of just how many there are, travel on a clear moonless night to the country or mountains away from city lights.

Answer 4

We Actually Don t See All Stars, We Only See The Stars Around us, Which Is About 1/6 Of The Galaxy

Answer 5

They are all still there, depending where you are looking from you see less and less.
If you live in the city, the big lights drown out the visible stars.
I live in LA, Ca and out here it is due to smog, pollution and the lights.

If I go out to the mountains or the middle of the desert the stars are innumerable and absolutely breathtaking.

I would suggest a vaca to a remota area with no smog, away from the citys bustle and lights.

Answer 6

Fewer stars might be visible for one of two reasons (or acombination of the two):
1) air pollution might be bad--creating a haze that dims out the stars. Since many of the ones we might see aare very faint, thats's enough to make them invisible to the naked eye.
2) If you live near a big city--or in a large suburb--all the lights create what astronomers cal "skyglow"--some of the light reflects off particles in the admosphere,--in effect, a form of glare that blots out the starlight.

Answer 7

Light pollution blocks the light from the milky way and faint stars.

Answer 8

It's because of light pollution. Go to somewhere where there's no city lights, perhaps the country sides.

Answer 9

there are as many stars as there ever were, light pollution from cities interferes with our view of them.

Answer 10

Light and dust pollution.