Why can’t we see stars during the day?
In: Physics
The sun is a star. So technically, you can. But that’s just semantics…..
The reason that we can’t see stars as we know them (those twinkly lights at night) is because the light of the sun drowns them out. Those small stars that you see at night, some of them are actually MASSIVE. Some of them larger than our sun, but they are extremely far away. So far away, that it’s distance may as well be an arbitrary number because we have no concept of distance on that scale. And because they’re so far away, a star’s light loses its brightness because of the distance it must travel.
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