Your Dark Sky Reading List: 10 Books to Inspire You This International Dark Sky Week

International Dark Sky Week runs April 13–20, 2026. This year's theme is "Go Dark." Here's how to prepare—one page at a time. When was the last time you looked up and truly saw the night sky? For most of us, the honest answer is complicated. Light pollution now affects more than 80% of the world's population, and the problem is growing at nearly 10% per year. The Milky Way—that river of light our ancestors used to navigate, tell stories by, and set their calendars to—has become invisible to a...