why don’t we see stars from the lunar surface?

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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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You can’t see them in the picture, because the picture has been taken in the day on the moon, so you can’t really see the stars because they are too dimm for the camera

But if you were there in person, since there is no atmosphere you could adjust your eyes to the darkness and see the stars, if they had used different camera settings they also could have shown the stars, but the astronauts and the moon would have been overexposed and washed out

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