How does light pollution work?

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Why can’t I see the stars in the city as opposed to the countryside?

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The same way sunlight can “light up the sky” and turn it blue, human made light will “scatter” and spread out through the atmosphere, lighting it up, obscuring the much fainter starlight that is trying to come down through the atmosphere.

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