@pubity: Don Pettit has spent more than two decades watching our cities change from space. 🚀🛰 Since his first ISS mission in 2003, the NASA astronaut and photographer has captured hundreds of nighttime images of cities around the world. Now, after four missions aboard the station, he’s highlighting how the transition from warmer orange street lighting to brighter LED lighting has changed the view of our cities from orbit. 🌎 The difference is pretty incredible to see. 👀 Credit: Don Pettit / NASA #Pubity #Space #NASA #Photography

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salem :
sodium light is actually better for reducing light pollution. leds also fuck with your natural sleep cycle so it's honestly really unfortunate we use them for everything, just bevause they're cheaper
2026-09-08 12:53:14
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mr.........dnd
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the worlds losing its colours fr
2026-09-08 05:49:05
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guildgirl
Aqua :
Hate the LEDs. Everything is just way too bright. Seeing at night is cool, but being BLINDED? Yeah, not a fan.
2026-09-08 07:20:09
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mikehoncho8647
Mike Honcho :
Everybody switched to led and the power companies didn’t lower one bill 😂
2026-09-09 01:01:02
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jonahkill1793
JonahKill1793 :
Y'all seem to forget, it wasn't those LED's that would tell us to come home once it was dark enough. It was those orange lights that we stood under, after the long day of playing outside with our friends. It's under those lights, that we drove home from the movie theater, and our parents carried us in the house and put us to bed. It's those lights that guided many of us home from camping trips, or even trips to grandma's house after a day of baking cookies and acting crazy. The world has been losing its colour, for a very long time.
2026-09-08 07:49:00
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fedesalgaro
fedesalgaro :
The solution couls be simple: adding a yellow cover to led lights
2026-09-08 17:37:58
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steviey198
stevekly6pc :
Seeing all the “protect the earth” people stop care about the earth the second LED lighting comes up is always hilarious. They’d rather use vastly less efficient sodium lights because they think they look pretty
2026-09-09 19:44:20
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banned_account50
Banned_Account :
Yet our electric bills haven’t gone down like they said…..
2026-09-09 16:04:56
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charliewar7
Charliewar7 :
And it’s depressing
2026-09-08 10:09:07
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sethamphetam1ne
Sethamphetam1ne :
i personally like it. i can see the "world is loosing its color" comments, but the color just went from yellow to light blue, and that yellow took way more energy to produce.
2026-09-08 05:51:57
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daddy5guys
daddy5guys :
earth even has lost its beauty from space
2026-09-08 19:04:28
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valentin.ggg
Val.GG :
yellow lighting, including yellow headlights were so much easier on the eyes 👀
2026-09-08 07:14:42
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auglocqnuk
auglocqnuk - aka Nick :
I don't like it. Yeah, it's "cheaper" per light, but when light production is cheaper, you do it more, and the result is blinding. We need less light pollution, not more.
2026-09-08 11:16:26
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averageapplejoes
averageapplejoes :
The yellow soft lights were so much better. Everything in 2003 was better I wish we puke go back. This AI tech crap is destroying humanity. Social media is killing society. We need to go back 20 years if we want to save society. I’ve been saying that for years.
2026-09-09 11:40:54
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appleuser6884722
appleuser6884722 :
It looked like we had a lot more light with sodium lights
2026-09-09 15:50:53
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livingdeadgirl423
✨LivingDeadGirl✨ :
Before it looked like something living …. Now it looks like a computer motherboard
2026-09-09 11:44:22
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genx19607080
GenX19607080 :
I liked the sodium better.
2026-09-09 05:54:26
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ant_the_mighty
Ant_ the_mighty :
is this why my eyes hurt?
2026-09-08 09:46:42
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mattemeryme
Matt :
And it's hellish now
2026-09-08 06:41:39
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arincardsadventure
arincardsadventures :
We went from looking like one of the cosmic marvels that we witness out in space, to being bland and boring.
2026-09-08 13:44:30
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robj1580
robj :
how come instead of five 60W bulbs running every night I now have five 8W bulbs yet my power bill has only gone up... wasnt that part of the reason to switch.
2026-09-09 11:26:17
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pyschlotherapy
pyschlotherapy :
Light pollution aside, I recall power savings being big driver for change. What happened to all of that power saved by consumers? Here in the US we still get fleeced by the utility companies claiming more revenue demands for infrastructure upgrades and executive pay raises, power shortages driving brownouts. 🤔
2026-09-09 12:50:49
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begotten14
eric :
led lights are one of humanity's biggest mistakes
2026-09-08 21:10:02
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adampayne220
adam :
I like the old lights better
2026-09-08 13:10:27
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