If we can see the Milky Way on earth when there’s dark skies, why can’t we see it from the moon? All the videos and photos I’ve seen, it’s just black with no stars.
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If you take a picture of a person with the bright sky to their backs, you will either be able to see the person with a fainter sky, or a bright sky with a very dark looking person. It has to do with what the camera is trying to show in “normal” brightness.
Pictures taken from the lunar surface are adjusted to show the very bright ground. By adjusting to make the very bright surface “normal” looking, it has to make the entire image darker, including the stars.
There is no atmosphere to scatter light on the moon, so if you were actually standing there yourself you would be able to see the stars if you looked up and didn’t have the lunar surface taking up a large part of your vision to drown out the stars.
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