I noticed when watching the live stream video from the ISS there were no stars visible, in the same way we see them from earth. The ISS was in a night zone of the earth. Does it have to do with light?
In: Earth Science
Most of the time it is daytime on ISS. Even though the sky is not bright blue like on Earth but rather black the ISS itself and the Earth in the background is still lit up making it even brighter then even the brightest day on the surface. This means that all the cameras and indeed the crews vision is adjusted to daytime. This makes it impossible to see any stars in the footage. It is actually the same reason why we can not see stars from the surface of the Earth during daytime as well. The stars is still there in the sky and shines just as bright during the day as they do during the night. However the light from the Sun and all the secondary reflections from the sky and the ground lights up everything so that it is impossible to see the stars without specialized equipment.
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