Please at least try to read posts before asking follow-up questions. Perhaps consider context. Like, it being linked, and the poster never claiming it was their own photo. Fairly basic language patterns like “If it were”, perhaps suggesting that the image in question isn’t what a person actually sees.
I know, thinking before posting and all that. A big ask.
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I mean to be fair the light pollution do make it easier to identify major, bright stars because most the background clutter is gone, but I’ve only seen a sky full of stars a couple of times in my life, and each time it was scary. But I remember looking at Jupiter with some small telescope back when the shoemaker levy comet was hitting Jupiter. They had set up a small one in front of the space center Houston lobby, but you could see Jupiter and their major moons, but not much more. My parents then took me over to brazos bend state park (it’s not far from sugar land) where a bunch of amateur astronomers had bigger telescopes set up and we could see a lot more (still not enough to see the comet).
I don’t know anywhere in Taiwan where there’s no light pollution.
In about 4 billion years, Andromeda will take up more and more room in the night sky, up until it crashes into, perhaps merging, perhaps passing through, the Milky Way, ~4.5 billion years from now.
If Life decides to maintain presence on Earth at that point, it will witness everything: the slow start, the climactic mingling between super massive black holes, and the return to a boring existence in the otherwise wide open universe. All this, just before being subsumed by the red-giant Sun in 5 billion years
There won’t be life in a billion years, by then the average temperature on earth will be about 50C.
I doubt you’ve actually been to many places.
I think TL is probably correct here. Even up a mountain there’s going to be some, but negligible.
Best star views I’ve ever seen were atop the different cross-island highways in Taiwan: better than anything on different overnight camping excursions in North America or New Zealand.
Still regret not having a star chart along with me in New Zealand (and this was before smartphones). I had no idea what I was looking at.
OK, fair enough, to be reasonable there are places in Taiwan where it’s easy to observe the night sky. I recall being up a mountain where we saw shooting stars pretty much every minute.
Is this light pollution?
When I turned the scooter light off, it was pitch black.
I don’t think it is. But I’m not an absolutist. 
What’s that red thing?
EDIT: It’s something on my computer screen. Apologies.
What red thing?
It’s a UFO. Bring us your leaders.
I’ve identified it. A bit of prawn.
I’m more interested in how you get rid of the paywall on Washington post articles…
Pay for a subscription.
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Go outside right now and look up to the west!
You can see Venus so damned clearly. It looks like a beacon it’s so bright!
You can see Saturn and Jupiter, too. However, not as brilliant as Venus.
Saturn is almost straight up and Jupiter is just above the horizon to the east.
I been seeing it for the past week. I was thinking it was Jupiter, and not Venus.
Taken from exit 4 of Taipei 101 mrt station, south exit of Taipei 101
Oh, I wasn’t paying enough attention. I thought that was Saturn (and noticed it was remarkably bright, which should have been a clue). But right, Saturn descending that low is a few hours off yet.
Lovely crescent moon as well (now set). Looking ahead a couple of days: should see Venus, the Moon, and Saturn all pretty close together in early evening. Let’s hope the skies are equally clear then, although the forecast doesn’t look promising. (Still not bad - but not as good as the past week, which has been fantastic.)
