: Why are other planets and stars and all that colourful galaxy not visible in the sky the same way we see the moon and sun in our everyday mundane lives with naked eyes?
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They are. As in, they really are.
But smog and light pollution are making this a real challenge to see in an urban area. If you go wilderness camping, at night, look up, and you’ll see a lot of that stuff you didn’t think you could see.
Now, the “size” part is important, too. It’s one thing to be able to see Mars in the sky, but to you, it’s likely a dot with a bit of a red-ish hue. This is because despite being a neighbor planet, and bigger than the Earth, it’s a lot farther away than you realize, so you won’t see it moon-sized in the sky, unless something somewhere went exceptionally wrong.
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