alt Hacker NewsA small dense planet, which orbits a star, is orbited by a larger gaseous moon. It's interesting the discovery is in Chile which has some of the best night skies, a Class 1 on the Bortle scale specifically in the Atacama Desert. Hoping to make it out there one day.
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jazzkingrt • yesterday at 5:46 PM
At some point I did some research and the Atacama was suggested to me as the best vantage point on earth for simple skygazing. Definitely on my bucket list.
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I recommend it. I'd been living in places that were a class 9 on the bortle scale, with occasional camping trips to places that were a class 5. I recently moved to the south island of New Zealand, and it's a class 4 in town and a class 1 on camping trips nearby. Completely different skies. It's rainy here though, so we don't get cloudless skies nearly as often as Chile does.