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April 25, 2025

Why Central Oregon should be your summer stargazing destination

By CHANTELLE KINCY
Wealth of Geeks

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Many factors, including streetlights, advertisements, landscaping, interior lighting, and factory lights, contribute to light pollution. In populated areas, light pollution is so severe that 99% of the population can't look up and see the natural sky in the U.S. and Europe.

The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky overhead. From the jagged silhouette of Smith Rock to the juniper filling the air in Sisters, this is one of the last places where you can see the stars as our ancestors once did: wild, brilliant, and unfiltered.


 
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