Hey everyone. This is Dylan here. So this week is going to be a little bit of a special one.

It is the vernal equinox this week. That is when the sun is exactly over the equator. It's March 19th and that is also

the official start of spring, the very best season of them all, the birds, the bunnies, the flowers. And as a nod to that, we're going to be bringing

you five stories with one theme. It is over our heads week. We're going to look to the night sky, we're going to spend time in and among the stars, and hear from people

who are going to encourage us to change our perspective on the world above us.

I hope you enjoy it.

Ryan and Grayson likes the dark.

We have to do trading with the crews and the one of the flight tanks came up in the

flight deck and she goes, it is so dark up here, I can't see. He's a commercial airline pilot.

We just

barely, our screens lit up there in the flight deck, which is barely our screens lit up.

When they reach cruising altitude

and float along through the night sky.

It's calm and placid up there.

I love just gazing out over the stars.

Last night I came in from over the Las Vegas area and just passed between Las Vegas and Salt Lake. It's pretty dark and just the sky is just incredible up there at altitude.

Down on the ground, Ryan lives in Leighton, Utah, about 20 minutes north of Salt Lake.

His house is on a quiet corner lot.

He's got a backyard, and it's pretty private and at night it was always really pretty dark there

Just the way Ryan liked it, but then

A street lamp ruined at all.

I'm Delantheris and this is Atlas Obscura.

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