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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https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/why-are-there-no-stars.html

Basically, it’s because the stars are too faint to show up in the photos because of the kinds of cameras being used.
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