Lights in the sky

Maybe Jesus does want you for a sunbeam after all.

Experience the magic of the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival when thousands of lights float up the black sky above the village of Shifen Taiwan.

Yi Peng in Chiang Mai, also sometimes called the lantern festival, is characterized by a massive release of beautiful lanterns into the sky

Our Vision The night sky, filled with stars, is celebrated and protected around the world as a shared heritage benefitting all living things. Our Purpose To protect the night from light pollution. Our Approach By […]

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Ukraine, a democracy of 44 million people, continues to experience a devastating attack. As the world uneasily watches the 8th day of the Russian invasion, people and nations are uniting like never before, sending support and condemning this unjustified war.

One week from today Americans will celebrate the country's anniversary with fireworks shows, and Core77's hometown of New York will have a huge one, as usual. But we've just seen something more participatory than fireworks, less fleeting, and arguably more beautiful: Citizens of Poznan in Poland celebrated the first official...

A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor. Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars. If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit…

Lets look at a small problem with the statement “you must love yourself to love others or be loved by others”. The problem can be easily demonstrated by asking you the question “Do you believe in oneness or not?” If the answer is yes, you cannot truly believe you need to love yourself to love others or be loved by others because there is no such thing as “other” in this universe.