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A WINDOW ON INFINITY

The one who observes the stars travels through time and witnesses the most sublime cosmic spectacle.

Rola-Moça Mountains State Park, due to its vastness adjacent to the urban area, offers a rare opportunity to practice sky observation.

Celestial phenomena have aroused curiosity and inspired human beings for millennia. The stars have always offered opportunities and valuable information for humanity, not only for contemplation, but also for the usefulness of the information that the stars provide.

In our daily lives, calendars and ways of measuring time are based on perceived changes in the sky such as day and night, seasons and the phases of the moon. The references in these phenomena, however distant they may seem, are still connected with the way we perceive the passage of time and build representations for our life and the environment.

The sky is a natural heritage of humanity and the importance of conserving the environment is closely related to its perception and conservation. Unfortunately, the impacts generated by man gradually erase our view of the stars in the night sky,