{"id":363733,"date":"2025-12-22T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:58:16","slug":"this-citys-best-winter-show-is-in-its-pitch-dark-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363733\/","title":{"rendered":"This City\u2019s Best Winter Show Is in Its Pitch-Dark Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagstaff mandates that shielding be placed on outdoor lighting so that it doesn\u2019t project skyward. There are also limits on the lumens of light allowed per acre of land.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a starry sky visible even from the heart of the city. Flagstaff\u2019s Buffalo Park, just a couple miles from downtown, measures about a 4 on the Bortle scale, which quantifies the level of light pollution. (The scale goes from 1, the darkest skies possible, to 9, similar to the light-polluted night sky of, say, New York City. To see the Milky Way, the sky must be below a 5.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flagstaff mandates that shielding be placed on outdoor lighting so that it doesn\u2019t project skyward. There are also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-363733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}