With a combination of high elevation, clean air, and lack of light pollution, the village claims one of the darkest, dazzlingly star-lit night skies in China
is a 24,000-mile storytelling odyssey across the world in the footsteps of our human forebears. He sends this dispatch from Yunnan Province, in China.We trek along thousand-year-old mule trails, through the dense pine and oak forests of Yunnan province in western China, past the tracks of wild boars, under the croaks of gliding crows, over the pale caps of wild mushrooms, and then spot: An astronaut. A Mars lander. A UFO.
“In the future, the plan is to make our village famous as China’s best Starry Sky Town,” says Wang Mangmang, the manager of the village guesthouse, explaining the hamlet’s cosmic decor. “We are like an experiment, or test site.” Gaomeigu is a laboratory of hope pinned literally to the heavens: .houses the largest optical telescope in China, with a mirror nearly eight feet wide. Scientists at the facility have discovered dozens of new black holes and documented more than 160 supernovas. Now, a business entrepreneur from the megalopolis of Guangzhou, in eastern China, has decided that this scientific attraction, plus the diamond-clear firmament above tiny Gaomeigu, can attract tourists.
Like several other Gaomeigu farmers, his concerns appear more earthbound: A short growing season. Potato exports to nearby Myanmar shriveling because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on cross-border trade. Limited job prospects. Neighbors leaving to seek opportunity in cities. Yet it is precisely these rural hardships—insists guesthouse manager Wang—that make Gaomeigu’s novel rebranding as an “astro village” so timely.“I haven’t seen any astronomers around, but I’d welcome them,” says He Wan Jun, a farmer in Gaomeigu. The village walls are decorated with celestial paintings to draw skyward-looking tourists.One village light-control proposal: Equipping farmers with strategically placed video cameras to record their fields at night.
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