dutch painter vincent van gough perhaps said it best when he commented that in the moments that he felt overcome by piety he went outside to paint the stars. more than a third of people on earth never get a glimpse of the milky way due to light pollution we asked on facebook for your views on the topic does artificial lines equal progress or do we need to literally take back the night. i even writes it makes me sad and i worry most of all about the animals that are affected. here on from the philippines calls it a side effect of our technological capabilities but he says we must do something to limit light pollution in the atmosphere. here not a come unstuck hest actually in venezuela we don't have this problem because our lights have gone out. cloudy i feel sorry for people who can't see the milky way in all its splendor she's fortunate enough to see it all year long from her home in chile. thank you for all your comments. documents and tonight there's lots of it out there in the universe and most of it is still a mystery to us such as the incredibly bright of gamma rays emitted by pul