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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The surface of the moon is *very* reflective. It’s a fine, nearly white, dust. It reflects so much sunlight that astronauts have to wear heavily tinted visors to see.
A camera captures light to make a picture. If it takes in too much light, the picture looks over-bright and washed out. To prevent that you set exposure time. A shorter exposure allows less light in, and prevents washing out of the image, but also doesn’t capture relatively dim things.
On the moon the surface is so bright that any exposure long enough to capture the relatively dim stars would be completely washed out, and you wouldn’t be able to see anything of the surface except a white blur.
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