If light pollution keeps accelerating, astronomers predict 60% of the stars we can see today could be invisible by 2041

• New data shows light pollution has made the night sky today twice as bright as it was eight years ago.
• If this continues, a child born today in a place with 250 visible stars would only see 100 by age 18.
• That would mean 60% of the stars we see today will be gone by 2041 if light pollution keeps growing.

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear.