Twenty five years ago, Los Angeles experienced a massive power blackout due to an earthquake. The entire city was thrust into darkness. The emergency call service, 911, was inundated with panicked residents reporting “a giant silvery cloud,” was engulfing the sky. Unknown to the callers, they were seeing the Milky Way, the galaxy containing our solar system, in the night sky for the first time. Some of these urbanites had never before experienced a non-light polluted sky.