Science
Here is the best place on Earth to see stars, according to science – Live Science
The stars literally twinkle less here because there is hardly any ‘atmospheric turbulence’ — a phenomenon that confounds scientists the world over.
Good news: Scientists have found the absolute best place on Earth
for romantic stargazing!
Bad news: It’s literally next-door to the South Pole.
The hotspot (or cold spot, in this case) is called Dome A, and is located on a plateau near central Antarctica
, roughly 2.5 miles, (4 kilometers) above sea-level. In a new study published July 29 in the journalNature
, researchers found that the conditions at Dome A are positively perfect for staring at the cosmos with minimal interference from E…
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