Europe at Night by NASA Tile

Europe also has a network of bright city lights. The box denotes the region of Hungary detailed in the fifth image. Hortobágyi (Hortobágy) National Park, located about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Budapest, is a UNESCO World Heritage site known for vast plains and wetlands. It is also an IDA silver-tier park, where brighter sky phenomena are regularly visible, and fainter ones are sometimes visible. The Milky Way, for example, must be visible in summer and winter. "We will probably always light our cities, but there's no reason we have to do it with the amount of light that we currently use or in the way that we currently light," Kyba said. "Well-lit and brightly lit are not the same thing. Better design could improve visibility in cities while greatly reducing the amount of waste light shone into the sky." https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84722/dark-sky-parks NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Centre).