撒哈拉沙漠上空的银河
Milky Way above Sahara Desert
Humanity has been admiring the stars since its appearance. The beauty of the most distant stellar constellations inspired even the first painters: you can find many rock paintings of celestial objects.
Nowadays people know a lot about the stars and even send vessels into space. However, technology development has made some problems in this matter: it is becoming harder and harder to look at the starry sky. The reason of this issue is the constant associate of towns and cities — luminous pollution.
人类自出现之日起，就一直仰慕星空。 最遥远的星座之美甚至激发了第一批画家的灵感：您可以找到许多天体岩画。
现在人们对星星有了很多了解，甚至将飞船送入太空。 但是，技术发展在这件事上也出现了一些问题：仰望星空越来越难。 造成这个问题的原因是城镇的不断关联——光污染。
Illumination of buildings, advertisement and street lights, transport — all of this makes the night less dark. The lights of these artificial sources even reach the lower layers of the atmosphere. Many old observatories, such as the Royal Greenwich in London and Pulkovo in St. Petersburg are surrounded by residential housing and cannot operate anymore. As for the citizens — when looking at the sky at night they can see only its brightest objects at best.
建筑物的照明、广告和路灯、交通——所有这些都让夜晚变得不那么黑暗。 这些人造光源的光甚至可以到达大气的较低层。 许多老天文台，例如伦敦的皇家格林威治和圣彼得堡的普尔科沃，都被住宅包围，无法再运作。 至于市民——在晚上仰望天空时，他们最多只能看到最亮的物体。
But there are still places on our planet that are far away from civilization. There, surrounded by nature itself, you can find real darkness at nighttime, and that is the time when the “kings of the night” — the stars appear.
但我们星球上仍有一些地方远离文明。 在那里，被大自然包围，你可以在夜间找到真正的黑暗，这就是“黑夜之王”——星星出现的时候。
One of the most favorable places to observe the starry skies is Africa. The famous Sahara Desert, in particular. There are no inhabited places for hundreds of miles. That means absence of lights and smoke fog, which makes the air crystal clear. As a pleasant addition you can also adore the great dunes.
非洲是观察星空最有利的地方之一。 特别是著名的撒哈拉沙漠。 方圆百里无人居住。 这意味着没有灯光和烟雾，这使得空气晶莹剔透。 作为一个愉快的补充，您还可以欣赏伟大的沙丘。
During the cloudless nights you can distinguish the most powerful stellar gathering and the Milky Way, as well as stellar constellations and even separate stars. They cover the sky with a fantastic carpet, shining and reminding of the greatness of the Universe.
在万里无云的夜晚，您可以分辨出最强大的恒星聚集和银河系，以及恒星星座，甚至是分离的恒星。 它们用梦幻般的地毯覆盖天空，闪闪发光，提醒着宇宙的伟大。
