I just recently learned the reason why the stars only shine at night, and it made me wonder if the sun overshined them in the morning. Does that mean that the only stars we see at night are stars that are hidden behind the earth’s shadow? I would like to understand it better, thank you.
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So, because we are moving around the sun, theirs no area of the sky that we *never* see stars in, just areas we currently can’t. A given star might be hidden from us by the sun for a period, but a few months later we have shifted far enough around our orbit it’s back in view
We only see the stars when the sun is behind the earth, but since the earth orbits the sun, the section of the universe we see is constantly changing. This is why constellations move, rotate, and disappear
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