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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Go outside at night, stand under a porchlight, and take a selfie with the clear night sky in the background. The phone will adjust to the bright light on your face and not the dark skies, making the stars invisible.
That’s what happened on the moon, the cameras were there to photography the surface, not the sky. If they had been adjusted to capture the stars, the surface would have been hopelessly washed out.
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