UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF LIGHTS BRINGS MESSAGE FROM NASA ASTRONAUTS.

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The UN International Day of Light is celebrated during The Water Light Festival in Brixen/Bressanone, even by the astronauts.

Among the lightworks is Italian Stefano Cagol´s work “Not to lose (the stars)” about the lights seen from the eyes of the astronauts.
He talked with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who has spent 156 days in the international space-station and will be commander on the next NASA mission to the Moon in 2024 and Reid Wiseman said to Brixen Water Light Festival and all humans on UN Day of Lights:

“Hello to everyone at the Water Light Festival, International Day of Light. I am NASA’s astronaut, Reid Wiseman, and I had the opportunity to spend 165 days on the International Space Station”.

Artist Stefano Cagol  also spend time talking to astronaut Luca Parmitano, the first Italian to command the International Space Station and Stefano Cagol explains the meeting with the astronauts:
“They try to explain to me the beauty of stars, the millions. And with the light pollution you are looking at, you lose everything of this”.

Reid Wiseman, NASA Astronaut Commander continuous:
“As our civilization continues to advance and our technology increases and the way that we create light and use light and even need light changes. I would love for everyone on Earth to get to look out at night and see the darkness of space and stars. The way we get to see them from the International Space Station, to see so many stars that you get lost in the constellations.”

For Stefano Cagol  is it also about not to loose the dreams in the sky.

Millions of children across the globe will never experience the Milky Way where they live. 80 percent of the world’s population lives under skyglow. 

In the United States and Europe 99 percent of the public can’t experience a natural night, according to the science report “World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness” in Science Advances journal. The report also says, that Italy are one of the most light polluted countries in Europe.

Artist Stefano Cagol  from Italy explains
“Not to lose the stars is about light pollution because we have too much light” explains Artist Stefano Cagol  and continues: “We are using too much energy and we have to find a better way to have a better symbiosis with nature.”

The widespread use of artificial light over the last 100 years primarily comes from street and industrial lights. It is also called light pollution and has known consequences for humans, wildlife, and the climate. 

“The point of view for the astronaut is very important because they have really the vision of the impact that we have on the planet” says Stefano Cagol, and continuous “.. maybe a bit too much”.

The Brizen/Bressanone Light Festival continues until May 21 having 47 light installations placed in the old mountain city of South Tyrol in North Italy, former Austria.  

The UN Day of Light on May 16 started, when physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman, managed to make the first operation of the laser in 1960.