Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah's national parks

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah's national parks

Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park. Image: Mike Saemisch With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the universe By Bryony Cottam Right now, we’re some 26,000 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way, on the edge of a spiral arm called the Orion Spur. From here on Earth, our galaxy appears as a luminous band of stars that arches across the night sky. On a c…