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

Question

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.

In: Physics

Answer 1

> If we can see the Milky Way on earth when there’s dark skies, why can’t we see it from the moon?

You absolutely can see stars and the Milky Way on the Moon when there’s dark skies.

You just haven’t seen dark skies on the Moon before. All the Apollo landings occurred during the lunar day, when the sun was out. They needed to land in the daytime so they could see the surface when they were landing.