Why does space look always black when we see videos from the ISS instead of seeing all the billions of other stars..?

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Why does space look always black when we see videos from the ISS instead of seeing all the billions of other stars..?

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Camera exposure settings.

Simple explanation is that the stars are extremely dim compared to surfaces illuminated by sunlight (e.g. the ISS, an astronaut, or the moon surface).

If you want to photograph brightly lit things in space, you need a fast exposure so that the bright things don’t appear washed out white. With a fast exposure, the stars are much too dim to show up.