Since it started its summertime Star Train five years ago, Ely has drawn tourists from as far away from Australia and China. The nonprofit group Friends of Nevada Wilderness wants to help many forsaken high-desert communities use those dark skies to attract tourism by developing promotional brochures and advertising campaigns. The heavens shine nearly as brightly from tiny Ely and Gerlach to Great Basin National Park and even Tonopah. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) there, the night skies are so dark, astronomers say, you can see your shadow by the light of the Milky Way.īut amateur stargazers say Southern Nevadans don’t have to travel that far to appreciate the nighttime. The Milky Way in the dark sky above the Tonopah Historic Mining Park on Wednesday, Oct. This year the isolated Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area, in the state’s far northwest reaches, was named an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, becoming only the 10th place on Earth to receive such a designation. In fact, rural Nevada has some of the blackest nighttime skies on the planet. N a state well-known for the shimmering lights of the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada is getting some international recognition for something decidedly darker.
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