Whenever I’ve been promised that a place is ‘just a dot on the map’, it usually ends up feeling like something of a misnomer. You go along imagining a wild outcrop fringed by picturesque beaches that ...

Look up at the night sky. How many stars do you think you could count? On a perfectly dark, moonless night, the answer is about 2,500—and has been for millennia. But recently, that’s changed due to ...