Author name: samyukta

Night as a temporal habitat

This is the second part of a 2-part series of posts exploring the idea of nighttime as a habitat, originally published in 2023 by Noctia Institute. You can read Part 1 here. In Part 1, I mentioned that the same habitat can look very different at night due to the difference in light levels and being …

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Night Sky Tourism resources

This work, supported by a grant from the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development, focuses on using astrotourism as a tool for socioeconomic development in rural communities. By expanding the traditional science-based approach to include local strengths such as cultural heritage and natural environments, astrotourism was recontextualised into the broader definition of night sky tourism. …

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Via negativa, darkness, and light

“First, do no harm.” — Hippocrates Via negativa is a Latin term that translates to “the negative way” or “by way of negation”. Originating from Christian theology, this term was employed to describe the ineffable nature of God. Given that God is inherently unknowable, via negativa offers a means of understanding him by describing all …

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