Why We Can't See Stars in Space

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  • čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
  • The universe is an awe inspiring and mesmerizing place. We know stars, galaxies, nebulae, and nearly infinite points of light in the sky exist. We can look up from Earth and see them for ourselves with out own eyes. But why can't we see stars or anything at all in space when we're actually in space? Let's discuss exactly why this happens.
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  • @officialinterstellarnews
    @officialinterstellarnews  Před 9 měsíci +36

    Quick correction: I stated all three Astronauts landed on the moon. I meant to say they all went to the moon. Michael Collins never step foot on the moon's surface.

    • @antondavydov8139
      @antondavydov8139 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Yeah, I noticed that. Great video! I think it will be heartbreaking for conspiracy theorists to watch 😂

  • @daniels7907
    @daniels7907 Před rokem +1970

    To summarize: Just because you're in space doesn't mean you're not standing in full sunlight. The stars become visible when the sunlight is blocked.

    • @Wonkt
      @Wonkt Před rokem +27

      Nice

    • @johnmcginley5862
      @johnmcginley5862 Před rokem +25

      Well spoken Daniel S.

    • @desired117
      @desired117 Před rokem +120

      I'm really upset it took 8 minutes for him to say that.

    • @tumultuousv
      @tumultuousv Před rokem +68

      @@desired117 they explained it in more detail. An 8 minute lesson isn't that long.

    • @desired117
      @desired117 Před rokem +30

      @A B is not that it was too long. It's that I had the thought that it would be for the same reason you can't see stars in the day time at minute 2. They explained it in more detail but unnecessary detail in some spots.

  • @claudelemire2451
    @claudelemire2451 Před rokem +1843

    Michael Collins did not set foot on the moon. He was in orbit. Because of that, Collins is often called the "forgotten astronaut''

    • @anoopsagar8911
      @anoopsagar8911 Před rokem +60

      Then how come you remember him!

    • @AD-ur1fk
      @AD-ur1fk Před rokem +97

      I can’t imagine being alone orbiting the moon by yourself

    • @claudelemire2451
      @claudelemire2451 Před rokem +32

      @@AD-ur1fk Great view...though

    • @ra1ndrop885
      @ra1ndrop885 Před rokem +3

      Why didn’t he?

    • @pikachu6031
      @pikachu6031 Před rokem +47

      @@AD-ur1fk Image him having to come home to Earth all on his own! That’s what would have happened if the Assent Engine failed to fire on the LEM. Neil and Buzz would have been stranded on the Moon with no hope of any rescue, as it wasn’t possible for Michael Collins to dock with the LEM while it was on the Moon’s surface. At a certain point, due to Oxygen supply, Fuel, and a host of many other factors, Collins would have had no choice but to leave his two colleagues ; Commander Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, to their eventual tragic fete on the Moon, and return to Earth on his own!

  • @PeBoVision
    @PeBoVision Před rokem +1105

    Anyyone who lived in an Eastern Canadian or US city during the 2003 power grid failure has experienced this first hand. I always thought I still saw stars in the city until I saw the sky during a 3 night period without being diluted through the city's ambient light. It was literally breathtaking.
    Few of us truly see the night sky in the 21st century.

    • @garrywatters1140
      @garrywatters1140 Před rokem +39

      Come to Australia. I live just outside Darwin and see the night sky lit up often.

    • @niko6248
      @niko6248 Před rokem +59

      In older literature and text, you often hear people refer to the sky as the heavens. In my short time on this earth, the night sky has always been dark and uninteresting. If you wanted to find a star, you would have to stare at some point in space for a moment before being able to pick up on faint light. That is why it never made sense why people would call something as uninteresting as the sky, "the heavens". I now believe that if I could see the night sky in its full glory, I would also be calling it as such.

    • @NightMotorcyclist
      @NightMotorcyclist Před rokem +25

      I have to drive at least 100 miles away just to go to a dark enough area to get some great milky way shots on my cameras (Pixel 6 Pro and Fuji X-T4) and 200 miles just to be far enough from civilization and no light pollution.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +12

      @@niko6248 Take a trip to the Rockies and spend a night in a tent, you"ll see all the beautiful lights in the Creators Firmament.

    • @mikeburkhart8336
      @mikeburkhart8336 Před rokem +12

      Too much light pollution from cities ruins a truly wonderful view. Go out into the wilderness and look at how breathtaking the night sky can be.

  • @DaxMarko
    @DaxMarko Před rokem +420

    As a upcoming developer of a game where it takes places in space, you've defeated my dilemma I had about whenever should player see the stars outside spaceship windows or not. It seems like I would need to hide the distant stars if spaceship is near bright objects like planet or star, or the inside is well lit, but then reveal the beauty of space when player is in total darkness. Definitely a complex task technicality-wise, but I'd like to include as much as realism as possible for immersion purposes, which means needing to learn how things work in space, like from this video.

    • @spartan120_3
      @spartan120_3 Před rokem +14

      Niiice, I'm also planning on becoming a game designer, along with getting into the space and scifi genre of gaming. While having as much realism as I can get.

    • @somezsaltz6835
      @somezsaltz6835 Před rokem +15

      That actually sounds cool if implemented correctly

    • @dylan_was_taken
      @dylan_was_taken Před rokem +9

      How about some sort of automatic exposure setting like in Cyberpunk, where when you walk out of a building everything is white and it takes your characters eyes a second to adjust to the change.
      Could perhaps use some sort of system like that?

    • @MrGrabReal
      @MrGrabReal Před rokem +6

      We're all gonna save up alot of time now because of this man showing us the great video

    • @thewiseyoutubecommentor
      @thewiseyoutubecommentor Před rokem +6

      what's your game called?

  • @arielledavis7580
    @arielledavis7580 Před rokem +80

    My family went on a cruise when I was 16. We had one of the big rooms with a balcony and nothing could have prepared for the night sky in the Atlantic. OMG I was floored. I cried so hard. The darkness of the ocean mixed with the brightness of the stars in the sky brought me to tears. My ancestors used the night sky as a map & it all came kind of full circle for me. I encourage everyone to please try to see the night sky as clear as possible. Our very own galaxy is visible to our own eyes. Beautiful.

    • @omgcool7206
      @omgcool7206 Před rokem +4

      Interesting--my ancestors did the same thing.

    • @rh5134
      @rh5134 Před 10 měsíci +2

      My ancestors too.... mankind

    • @Benjy86
      @Benjy86 Před 8 měsíci +5

      I went on a cruise and couldn't even see the stars! The lights on the dang cruise ship were way to bright!

  • @its_chupa
    @its_chupa Před rokem +158

    If you haven't been to a dark sky to look at the stars, I suggest you take a trip to a dark sky zone. It's breathtaking. Seeing the milky way in photos does not do it justice compared to your own eyes. It's well worth driving a few hours to see, just make sure its a clear night with no moon

    • @uptheirons726
      @uptheirons726 Před rokem +11

      This. I have gone to the star parties at Cherry Springs in PA and it's just stunning. Nothing compares to seeing it with your own eyes.

    • @Chasityolaf
      @Chasityolaf Před rokem +3

      Just go to space

    • @TwinShards
      @TwinShards Před rokem +2

      @@youtubeperson199 No you are in fact looking at the milky way (example: 8:36) if you look in and within the brown-gold-ish line. Anywhere else is likely not the milky way. Why i say "likely" is because if you look just outside the brown-gold-ish lines there is a bunch of stars close enough to be "in" the milky way, just not visually from our perspective.

    • @orphanuprising
      @orphanuprising Před rokem

      @@youtubeperson199 You can literally see the core of the Milky Way; Sagittarius A*

    • @gamingcookiereal
      @gamingcookiereal Před rokem +1

      i really thought until like a month ago that all those pretty night sky photos with the milky way visible were edited or had a ton of exposure, i thought "why isnt the milky way visible from earth??" like i knew light pollution was bad but not THAT bad

  • @erenyeager9163
    @erenyeager9163 Před rokem +218

    I love how far humans have come. Out there, the space is scary, dark, almost empty and lifeless, yet it still holds beauty. That's why i love Science, Space and Astronomy
    This video deserves a million of views

    • @daedaedonedidit5634
      @daedaedonedidit5634 Před rokem +4

      you dont know space is lifeless theres tons of planets out there we not that important to be the only ones in the universe

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +2

      @@daedaedonedidit5634 That's what seperates Globeheads from FE'ers.Our lives have Devine Value.

    • @deadpanfish
      @deadpanfish Před rokem +5

      Bud we're still stuck on the internal combustion engine. Haven't advanced beyond boom boom goes vroom vroom intelligence. How far we've come.

    • @A315.
      @A315. Před rokem +3

      We've never been to space I've seen so many leaked videos from nasa 😂

    • @truthmusicman
      @truthmusicman Před rokem +4

      @@A315.

  • @dark_mage2
    @dark_mage2 Před rokem +60

    That was an extremely convoluted way of saying you can't see stars while in direct sunlight, but I appreciate the romanticism. Indeed, even relatively meagre levels of light from our cities makes it much more difficult to see the stars at night compared to the pitch-black countryside.

    • @totalakos8957
      @totalakos8957 Před rokem

      I live in the city. And when the wind blows out the dust in the atmosphere after a windy day and the air is clean, you can see much more of the space. :-)

  • @ajca711
    @ajca711 Před rokem +39

    December 2021, there was a devastating typhoon that hit the Visayan islands of the Philippines, that destroyed much, and left little. I was privileged enough to have been safe, and when night came, the lack of clouds meant an unhindered view of the night sky, and the beautiful stars sprawled out over the lightless urban landscape. Those were unforgettable days.

  • @bessmertni
    @bessmertni Před rokem +71

    During a stay in a small town hundreds of miles from a big city I specifically took my kids miles out from that small town so they could see the stars. Seeing the Mikly Way for the first time in her life moved my teenage daughter to tears. It was a beautiful experience.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +1

      Wonderment should of replaced tears.Nothing to cry about.

    • @neilbond2483
      @neilbond2483 Před rokem +10

      ​@@ronpapi9539 have should replace of. Not knowing proper English grammar IS something to cry about

    • @jszlauko
      @jszlauko Před rokem +3

      @@neilbond2483 - Funny that a person who is correcting a person's grammar writes "have should replace of" which makes absolutely no sense.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +2

      @@neilbond2483 Neil should be spelled kneel to Speculative Space scientists who offer Squat.

    • @neilbond2483
      @neilbond2483 Před rokem

      @@ronpapi9539 keep talking. You're just proving what an idiot you are👍

  • @arveentaylore8605
    @arveentaylore8605 Před rokem +71

    I literally thought I was watching a Vox video and it wasn't until I looked at the channel name that I realised I wasn't. Hoping your channel continues to grow, this was very well made

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +16

      Thats quite the compliment! Thats the level of quality I was going for! We will strive to keep up this production quality going forward.

    • @Cosmystery
      @Cosmystery Před rokem

      vox is trash. stop watching them

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +1

      I agree, it was very well done - instructive and beautiful. … But let’s talk about why there are no pictures of Michael Collins walking on the moon. 🤔

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +1

      @@brianarbenz1329 Globeheads are silent on issues that corner them.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +1

      @@ronpapi9539 It's amusing how you are perfectly willing to state such asinine things in the security and anonymity of the Internet. Social media both allow you to hide, and encourage people such as yourself to make absurd declarations which are Grade A click bait. In a realm that rewards intelligence, instead of preposterousness, people like Ron Papi and election deniers would be without the support system that their statements grab them, but which they don't warrant. You'd have to show maturity and sincerity to make the acquaintance of others.

  • @x-celsius5905
    @x-celsius5905 Před rokem +203

    The cameras from the Apollo missions werent good enough to see all those tiny dots. Even some cameras nowadays on earth have trouble seeing some. The biggest factor is light pollution from the sun. The sun is too bright to allow other stars to be seen easily, since there's nothing blocking sunlight in space. I think I remember hearing somewhere that when the astronauts of Apollo went behind the moon, they could see the most brilliant stars of all, since there was no sunlight to blot out the other stars.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      And yet they forgot to video tape their orbit around the backside of the Moon.What no cameras aboard? FE'ers aren't drinking the Koolaid.

    • @TomGrubbe
      @TomGrubbe Před rokem +13

      The Hassleblad cameras used on the moon were plenty capable of exposing for the stars. To do so would require a very long exposure and a tripod which they didn't have.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +2

      So where's the photos?

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      @@TomGrubbe NASA I'll equipped them.

    • @louisesamchapman6428
      @louisesamchapman6428 Před rokem +1

      The moon doesn't have an atmosphere to pollute with light ,so all you need is Shade ...to SEE the Stars . Was there shade ?

  • @SlicerJen
    @SlicerJen Před rokem +32

    On a scout trip my sons and I did sky watching and saw so many stars, you could not see constellations anymore. We saw the galactic arm. In the city, you only see a few stars. Lighting is key to visibility.

    • @donnyh3497
      @donnyh3497 Před rokem +4

      Going to any "dark sky park" will change a person's life. It's wonderful that you could do that for kids!

    • @michaelszczys8316
      @michaelszczys8316 Před rokem +1

      I read somewhere that Jim Lovell was telling how in the Apollo 13 emergency rescue and return to earth there was a time where they had to fire rockets to line up the ship in between the moon and earth. They had to try and do it without the computer and they were going to try and navigate by constellation. The problem being they could not tell where the constellations were as it looked like
      SOLID STARS. They saw so many stars they saw all of them . He said the only thing they could go by was the earth and moon.

  • @weird3604
    @weird3604 Před rokem +25

    This channel is one of the reasons why I love space....
    That view of cosmos, without any light pollution....

  • @greateagle2076
    @greateagle2076 Před rokem +19

    It's almost the same reason why we can't really see stars during the day. Thank you for this, the way you explained it was beautiful.

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +4

      Thank you so much! Really enjoyed putting it together ☺️

    • @chrism3784
      @chrism3784 Před rokem +2

      during a total solar eclipse you can see the brighter stars during the day, it's insane

    • @greateagle2076
      @greateagle2076 Před rokem

      @@chrism3784 Man I want to experience that.

    • @scholaroftheworldalternatehist
      @scholaroftheworldalternatehist Před rokem

      Not really because there is atmosphere here to scatter light, not atmosphere in space

  • @esshor.
    @esshor. Před rokem +60

    I really enjoyed that, thanks. And I even began getting like evil tingles (ya know, like when you’re watching a scary movie) when they started describing the black velvet looking texture of the rest of space above them

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +7

      Was a pleasure to make it! Space is pretty terrifying. I get the same feeling sometimes when I look at certain photos.

    • @esshor.
      @esshor. Před rokem +3

      @@officialinterstellarnews Absolutely. Agreed. The nature of the unknown; particularly with astronomy, is pretty astounding and scary. Like how black holes defy the laws of physics. Or how dark energy and dark matter are just vague labels we've assigned to hypothetical forms of matter that we in no way understand, but do know that one makes up for nearly 85% of all universes matter, and the other is unexplainably making everything everywhere continually expand out, at insane and increasing speeds...... really freaks me out.

    • @ra1ndrop885
      @ra1ndrop885 Před rokem

      You mean goosebumps?💀

    • @ke4uyp
      @ke4uyp Před rokem

      ​@@officialinterstellarnews A quick question I totally believe we went to the moon and I fully understand the limitations of dynamic range of a photograph or video, not allowing that extreme of dynamic light range. It is interesting though that we have hundreds of hours of video of spacewalks and every 45 minutes the astronauts go into darkness and you still don't see the stars. Why is that?

    • @Chishannicon
      @Chishannicon Před rokem +1

      I had the same feeling. It must have been an awe inspiring kind of deep terror they were feeling. At least, I think that's how I would have felt.

  • @thatrandomguycommenting1261

    Most of us can't even really see stars on the surface due to light. I've been out in rural Nevada. There's so many stars in the sky it's insane.

  • @amef15
    @amef15 Před rokem +5

    In a nutshell, you can't see starlight while under direct sunlight. Wow, mind blown.

  • @liberatetutemeexinferis5902

    An astronaut photographer would really capture some amazing shots in space.

    • @AvengerII
      @AvengerII Před rokem

      Read Darren Romano's comments.
      It explains why photos taken on the Moon and in orbit around Earth by the astronauts DO NOT show the stars!
      Space telescopes have hardware to get around the glare issue.

    • @nori87
      @nori87 Před rokem

      Space telescopes already exist. Like hubble

  • @spencerallison3196
    @spencerallison3196 Před rokem +4

    Same reason you can't see stars in space is the same reason you can't see stars during day. It's f-ing bright

  • @LoneStarRay
    @LoneStarRay Před rokem +5

    You should have 1 mil subscribers by now. You’re doing great man

  • @Summerbaby247
    @Summerbaby247 Před rokem +8

    Greenport, Long island, NY had the most beautiful starry night sky I’d ever seen. Away from the city lights So many stars were visible it was an amazing experience for me ☺️

  • @StefanVeenstra
    @StefanVeenstra Před rokem +6

    Makes perfect sense, what can we see of the universe during the day, aside from the earth, the moon and the sun? Night sky on reveals itself at night.

  • @orangecreme222
    @orangecreme222 Před rokem +4

    Pretty cool explaining.
    Also, I was lucky to live in the middle of nowhere. I didn't know not being able to see stars at night was rare. Grew up in a place when I saw stars nightly.

  • @Laban6112
    @Laban6112 Před rokem +2

    Easiest way to understand this is that you can't see the stars during the day and it was daytime on the Moon when they were there.

  • @DawnUSNvet
    @DawnUSNvet Před rokem +6

    Thank you. You explained it well.
    a camera like my D750 can shoot the stars requiring that I find a rare place of minimal light pollution.
    Then with a tripod, fast lens and proper settings It becomes a reality only after a 20 second exposure.

  • @galacticgiveaways7047
    @galacticgiveaways7047 Před rokem +8

    Keep this style up! Want to see more!

  • @robvangessel3766
    @robvangessel3766 Před rokem +6

    Boy, you answered a question that plagued me forever! So, the Sun cuts out our view, no matter what. We need the shadow of night even up there to see the stars. BTW, if the images of the moon landing had been faked, I think the "makers" would have assumed we viewers would expect to see the stars and therefore would have "included" a starry sky, to make it presumably convincing.

  • @someoneonyoutube1993
    @someoneonyoutube1993 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The ending made me shiver. I would love so much to see the universe from above earth but I will never have to millions for it.

  • @AugustusAsgeir
    @AugustusAsgeir Před rokem +3

    As someone who lives in Southern Arizona, the stars here are beautiful at night as we don't have much light pollution

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +2

      I've been through Southern Arizona and Southern California in the desert regions and the stars were magnificent.

  • @BishopS
    @BishopS Před rokem +3

    I was over here thinking I saw stars in every one of those photos. Then I realized that was dust on my laptop screen lol

  • @koloradokiller
    @koloradokiller Před rokem +1

    This video was well-rounded, informative & well-spoken. You covered all the basics. As an avid astronomy nerd myself, you have earned a new subscriber 👍🏻

  • @Michaelengelmann
    @Michaelengelmann Před rokem +4

    When I went to Ecuador & the Galapagos in 2018, school science trip, we went to a beach , we did something similar. No light objects & let our eyes adjust to the stars 😍 I’ve done the same in the states but there you could see constellations 🌌

  • @chipdayton1625
    @chipdayton1625 Před rokem +8

    If you see shadows, it's not night time, it's day time. You can't see the stars during the day. It's really that simple.

    • @Malpriorvids
      @Malpriorvids Před rokem +1

      2am this morning, everyone was asleep, it was dark, the street lamps were on, yet the moon cast my shadow. Now I know it wasn’t actually nighttime but daytime. Today I’m going to see how much daytime I get after the sun has set. I’m expecting at least another 8 hours.

    • @chipdayton1625
      @chipdayton1625 Před rokem +2

      @@Malpriorvids If you are on the moon, can it cast a shadow on itself?

    • @MegaDudeman21
      @MegaDudeman21 Před rokem +1

      @@Malpriorvids the hell??

    • @mgman6000
      @mgman6000 Před rokem

      You can't see stars in the day because the atmosphere scatters the sun light

  • @Tyrant_Boi
    @Tyrant_Boi Před rokem +7

    correction: micheal collins never landed on the moon. he was still in the command module so they both could dock properly.

    • @guenthersteiner9252
      @guenthersteiner9252 Před rokem +1

      The fact that he was floating loads off miles away in emptyness all alone is a terrifying idea.

    • @Tyrant_Boi
      @Tyrant_Boi Před rokem +1

      @@guenthersteiner9252 yeah

    • @Hangry_Hungarian
      @Hangry_Hungarian Před 2 měsíci

      @guenthersteiner9252 It definitely would give me a weird feeling In the gut but also I bet it was beautiful outside!

  • @OrbaDaBorba
    @OrbaDaBorba Před rokem +93

    You gave the best explanation I've ever saw. It's still so bizarre to me that people can still believe the landing was fake, or that the earth is flat. All the proof has been given. Thank you for such an amazing explanation. I always wondered why it was pitch black in space, but on the ground on earth, you could see stars quite well

    • @JaySingh-fv3tr
      @JaySingh-fv3tr Před rokem +9

      People are not mugs! You need more than cgi, data, formulas and numbers how about some actual real footage!

    • @Malpriorvids
      @Malpriorvids Před rokem +21

      @@JaySingh-fv3tr they recently sent a satellite around the moon, then used the excuse that they had poor cameras when asked why they hadn’t filmed the landing locations.
      Who on earth spends billions of dollars on a project to film the moon from its orbit, and then fit poor cameras? Surely, considering the controversy, they’d at least fit one decent camera that could focus on places of interest?

    • @JaySingh-fv3tr
      @JaySingh-fv3tr Před rokem +13

      @@Malpriorvids it's all a mockery they know loads of dummies will continue making excuses for them, they could end the debate with a live record, but they don't want to give the game away

    • @MrVinnysWorld
      @MrVinnysWorld Před rokem +10

      Buzz Auldron (idk how to spell his name) already came out and explained there was no moon landing

    • @MegaDudeman21
      @MegaDudeman21 Před rokem +35

      You attracted all the crazies with this one lol

  • @raheemsreviews343
    @raheemsreviews343 Před rokem +6

    I swear when the image is “too blown out” you can see the stars. 1:34

    • @MushiGang
      @MushiGang Před rokem +2

      At 5:29 you can also see the stars in the video until the camera is pointed out of the window directly

  • @jerrera45
    @jerrera45 Před rokem +2

    The only time I was amazed by the cosmos was on a cold winter night in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains. I never had seen so many stars before. The snow on the mountain was literately bathed in starlight. That was a very exhilarating experience.

  • @skypiea7793
    @skypiea7793 Před rokem +3

    It's truly beautiful. I really wish to see those beautiful stars.

  • @atomicqxr
    @atomicqxr Před rokem +3

    you're criminally underrated man

  • @franzxiya
    @franzxiya Před rokem +1

    When you are in a plane at night, you can totally see the sky covered with stars.
    Though limited in small window still its breathtaking.

  • @crateer
    @crateer Před rokem +1

    Basically the same question as "why don't we see stars when it's day outside"

  • @ELJefeReviews
    @ELJefeReviews Před rokem +7

    I truly enjoyed this video. I hope we see more deep dives like this in the future.🙏

  • @oscarsoto8428
    @oscarsoto8428 Před rokem +8

    Ya'll can go up to space, I'll stay down here. 😅 Space is a little terrifying to me, and the idea of things going wrong with the rocket or the landing back to earth provides enough existential dread to keep me grounded. But if the technology ever becomes as safe as a plane ride, I'd be willing to go then. Until then, I can always check out channels like this. 😁

    • @JaySingh-fv3tr
      @JaySingh-fv3tr Před rokem

      Great comment, look at peoples behavior even during a plane ride, still gonna be nervous, now watch the iss jokers juggling fruit, laughing and joking around like no care in the world! It's so obviously fake!

    • @MrVinnysWorld
      @MrVinnysWorld Před rokem +1

      Lol they couldn't go if they wanted to

    • @MegaDudeman21
      @MegaDudeman21 Před rokem

      I would go in a heartbeat. IDC where. moon, mars, idc

    • @dracenheard9196
      @dracenheard9196 Před rokem

      ONG 💀

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

      I grew up desperately wanting to travel in space, following every Apollo and Skylab mission with passion. In more recent years, I have written sci fi about space travel, and that has fulfilled my wishes. No need to go up. Realizing what using the bathroom in zero g would be all about, as well as the possibility of throwing up a lot have taken much of the luster off it.

  • @christophercripps7639
    @christophercripps7639 Před rokem +1

    Basically similar effect is when one looks at the north-western sky at midmorning on a cloudless day from around 45° N. The sun is at one's back yet one doesn't see the stars; one sees blue. This us due to the atmospheric scattering sunlight. Only very bright objects can be seen like the moon and jetliners plus perhaps Venus at dawn/dusk.

  • @justinmadrid8712
    @justinmadrid8712 Před rokem +2

    I like how you conveniently cut out the part where Michael Collins said "I don't remember seeing any [stars]".

  • @verdi2310
    @verdi2310 Před rokem +4

    How beautiful is earth? Precious blue dot.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +4

    An astronomy professor of mine asked our class to think about about a version of this same question - why, if there are billions of stars in the observable universe, isn’t our night sky lit up with total brightness from them?
    The discussion led to his explanation that if we could position our eyes perfectly still for hours, our motionless retina would perceive more light that we now do. Steadily the weak light from stars at greater distances would register on the retina.
    I decided to test this out, and on a clear night I lay in my yard and remained as frozen as I could for several minutes. Sure enough a few more stars showed up.

  • @Crom_
    @Crom_ Před rokem

    I was questioning this less than a week ago and now this shows up in my recommendation, how convenient!

  • @prabeshmanshrestha827
    @prabeshmanshrestha827 Před rokem +2

    Nice content, wished the video was a bit longer. But anyway you have gained another subscriber today. 👍

  • @theresamichels8716
    @theresamichels8716 Před rokem +3

    I'm not very familiar with this topic, but it seems like I've seen stars in the pictures that come back from the Hubble space telescope, and I just looked at a picture from the ISS that showed stars, even thought it was facing directly into the sun's rays. Can anyone tell me what might be different about those scenarios? Thank you!

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Před rokem

      The Hubble is looking out into the darkness of space where stars can be seen. Around any of the outer planets Hubble would not see stars around the planets because the exposure is set to see the planet not the stars behind it. If you wanted to include the stars in a picture with a planet from Hubble the planet would be over exposed.
      If you saw a picture looking into the sun with stars also visible then it was altered picture. The stars were added in later in processing.

  • @mikeburkhart8336
    @mikeburkhart8336 Před rokem +18

    It was because the starlight was too dim for those cameras to pick up,you'll note the same effect in the Voyager photos from the eighties as well.

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +3

      All about shutter speed and as far as voyager they were making sure the file sizes are as small as possible as well for transmission. Lots of reasons

    • @DennisMX1
      @DennisMX1 Před rokem +2

      Best answer. However, if the camera had been aimed straight up at the stars, the exposure could have been adjusted to easily capture the stars.

    • @raifikarj6698
      @raifikarj6698 Před rokem

      ​@@officialinterstellarnews I am sure we can capture the star while traversing space with multi camera system and algorithm picture to mesh 2 source of picture and combining it like what you explain to be still able to see brightest object and the star in the screen of future space cockpit

  • @Michaelengelmann
    @Michaelengelmann Před rokem +1

    It makes sense, the picture one but I thought it was for something else entirely.
    For the 100m picture (which is scary af) it made for sense. Space is black, light bounces off surfaces but in space, light doesn’t bounce off that well .

  • @bigyeticane
    @bigyeticane Před rokem +2

    Thanks for the video. Lots of good historic information in there. Thank you.

  • @josedp
    @josedp Před rokem +3

    For skeptics an easier experiment. Try to spot stars in a blue day (no clouds between you and the stars). Now wait to the night (you are now in shadow part of the earth). EASY it happens every day 😅

  • @dandotvid
    @dandotvid Před rokem +6

    If they were going to do a conspiracy to fake the moon landing, wouldn't they just say "oh yeah! we saw all the stars it was beautiful!" Then what would the conspiracy theorists say? They would be confirming what those theorists thought they would see.

    • @GrnXnham
      @GrnXnham Před rokem +2

      Yep, if it was fake, they sure did a shitty job of faking it!😂😂

  • @zloth54
    @zloth54 Před rokem +1

    I would do anything, ANYTHING, for a chance to spend a moment in space

  • @D4rkSpaze
    @D4rkSpaze Před rokem +2

    I honestly can't wait for people to land and stay on moon to view the beautiful starts and milky way when the time comes.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +1

      You'll be long gone from this Realm and NASA will still be postponing the voyage to the Moon.Sad!

  • @StormTheRiolu
    @StormTheRiolu Před rokem +5

    My thoughts before the video: it's because the stars are very, very far away

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +3

      You’re not wrong.

    • @ellenrodriguez-mb7xi
      @ellenrodriguez-mb7xi Před rokem +3

      then why on earth you can see them ?

    • @tfootball8704
      @tfootball8704 Před rokem +1

      @@ellenrodriguez-mb7xi exactly, it's all bs

    • @imdark7372
      @imdark7372 Před rokem

      @@ellenrodriguez-mb7xi it's not because they're very far away. It's because they're very dim, so it's hard to capture them. Since the cameras' exposure is set to daytime, it wont be able to capture the stars. At night, on earth, your eyes adapt to the low luminosity, so your pupils increase and it makes you capture more light, making you see the stars.

    • @goomalia23
      @goomalia23 Před rokem

      ​@@ellenrodriguez-mb7xi Simple, los gases que se encuentran en la atmósfera se comportan como un tipo de lente que deja que entre la cantidad exacta de luz que nos permite ver las estrellas.

  • @darrenromano617
    @darrenromano617 Před rokem +6

    Well, it's kind of like going stargazing in a brightly lit city vs. doing it in a remote area. You see the night sky in all its glory without the light pollution. In space and in the moon, you don't have the atmosphere to scatter that light, but the intense glare from the sun is what will block your view of the stars.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +1

      Baloney!

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      No atmosphere on the Moon.Stars should be visible .Try aiming cameras away from the Sun's influence.Globeheads are so gullible.

    • @MegaDudeman21
      @MegaDudeman21 Před rokem +2

      Its all about light pollution.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      @@MegaDudeman21 Sheep support of lies.

    • @noiwontsignyourarmpit5263
      @noiwontsignyourarmpit5263 Před rokem

      @@ronpapi9539 decent bait, 6/10.

  • @bravotwozero535
    @bravotwozero535 Před rokem +2

    I never thought about how disconcerting it would be to travel into space and not see the stars.

    • @thedarkmoon2341
      @thedarkmoon2341 Před rokem

      The Apollo astronauts said it was so black that their depth perception senses went strange and they had to look away and back towards the light. Does nobody ever read the transcripts?

  • @peteabrh-fairest9463
    @peteabrh-fairest9463 Před rokem +2

    On the moon, the process is a little different than on the Earth, however.
    Even though the sky was black when the pictures were taken, it doesn't mean it was nighttime.
    The moon doesn't have an atmosphere, and therefore even though the sun is still lighting up the lunar surface, there is no blue sky to be seen.
    The surface of the moon was "incredibly bright,".
    Therefore, when taking a picture, the astronauts would have to make the shutter speed fast and narrow the camera's aperture to get a clear photo. By preventing loads of light from coming in and blurring the shots, the stars were omitted simply due to their light not being captured.

  • @ncbiz
    @ncbiz Před rokem +1

    Its similar to being in city and cant see much stars and going to a place with no light pollution and seeing all the stars.

  • @SweetLilWren
    @SweetLilWren Před rokem +3

    For the same reason the pictures I take of the Moon are way smaller than what my 👀 see

  • @rubiks6
    @rubiks6 Před rokem +5

    I was at the beach facing east. There was a beautiful Moon rising before sunset, so I thought I'd take a picture with my iPhone X. When I looked later, I discovered I couldn't see the Moon in the image. I thought that was quite odd. It had been a big, bright, full Moon. Perhaps what you are talking about - aperture, exposure, and ISO - is the explanation.

  • @farazzakir4520
    @farazzakir4520 Před rokem +1

    Woah man! this question was popping in my mind for quite a long time and finally i know the answer. I just thought that no one would have noticed this 🙃🔥💯

  • @alexander1989x
    @alexander1989x Před rokem +2

    I mean seem to be the same reason why you can't see stars in broad daylight on earth.

  • @Canyobility
    @Canyobility Před rokem +4

    the comment section is a conspiracy goldmine

  • @dark12ain
    @dark12ain Před rokem +3

    I think people forget how our atmosphere kinda magnify things for us

  • @9nikolai
    @9nikolai Před rokem +1

    My first guess was "well, it's day. You don't see stars during the day" so I got confused when you started talking about cameras until you said the actual reason.

    • @9nikolai
      @9nikolai Před rokem

      @Nikki Namikaze-Uchiha-Hatake But the moon _is_ a rotating object divided into night and day. Everyone who has seen the moon knows that it's not always night there, otherwise we wouldn't have seen it.

  • @Difracil
    @Difracil Před rokem

    Best explanation: It's like Light Pollution.
    Like why you can't see many stars at night in the sky when you are inside the brightest cities

  • @jonathanray4598
    @jonathanray4598 Před rokem +5

    Man has never walked on the moon period.

    • @nunya_bizniz
      @nunya_bizniz Před rokem +3

      You are stupid, period.

    • @nevergone111
      @nevergone111 Před rokem +1

      @@nunya_bizniz you are dumb as rock

    • @nunya_bizniz
      @nunya_bizniz Před rokem +2

      @@nevergone111

    • @MegaDudeman21
      @MegaDudeman21 Před rokem

      prove it.

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Před rokem +2

      What finality in that statement! He put a period at the end of the sentence!!! 😅😂😅
      In reality the period is used by some to replace their complete lack of evidence because they must know there is no evidence for such silly anti-science and irrational ideas.

  • @madman026
    @madman026 Před rokem +4

    lol after watching this it still makes me think its all bullshit

    • @raptorwhite6468
      @raptorwhite6468 Před rokem +1

      Why?

    • @madman026
      @madman026 Před rokem

      @@raptorwhite6468 we have this weird script we all fallow when it comes to advancement almost like a computer simulation meh not really saying its fake just saying its feels almost fake

    • @imdark7372
      @imdark7372 Před rokem +2

      @@madman026 uh so if someone else did something that you have never did, it's fake?

    • @Blackhole-TON618
      @Blackhole-TON618 Před rokem +1

      ​@@madman026 I'm telling you now, life isn't a simulation

    • @madman026
      @madman026 Před rokem +1

      @@Blackhole-TON618 maybe your life inst but mine is because I am a damn npc

  • @Js_Son83
    @Js_Son83 Před rokem +1

    Space is just amazing! So many mysteries.

  • @spicynachohaggis7756
    @spicynachohaggis7756 Před rokem +1

    Without an atmosphere to filter the light you can't see a star twinkle

  • @mu4ia
    @mu4ia Před rokem +4

    First Comment

  • @LORDVADER357
    @LORDVADER357 Před rokem +4

    Because they film on simulation sites mixed with miniature models in the dark room... and few CGI animated video. Plus some augmented virtual reality... Cheap thousand dollars mockup in the desert, some post processing... just change the sky from blue to orange and you have mars mission....

    • @weird3604
      @weird3604 Před rokem +3

      Haha! Another flat Earther...
      Is ur iq still with u?
      I can tell from your comment that u always have failed in ur physics exams...

    • @suhail_69
      @suhail_69 Před rokem +4

      Are you born dumb or it happened later?

    • @LORDVADER357
      @LORDVADER357 Před rokem

      @@weird3604 I am not flat earther. Flat earth mania was launched in 2015 over youtube to discredit fake cosmic missions. As for physics... get real. To this day nobody gives exact explanation of how and what is gravity. What are mechanics of gravity. Gravity is effect and not a force. Its combination of several factors. Mostly paramagnetism, diamagnetism and static charge attractions. And final component in the soup 🍲 is motion. Newtonian gravity is the correct. No such thing as spacetime warp like Einstein propose. There is actual connection, a string. Sun 🌞 holds earth by magnetism. Planet orbits are locked in magnetic equilibrium.

    • @totoitekelcha7628
      @totoitekelcha7628 Před rokem +2

      Ok russian bot

    • @LORDVADER357
      @LORDVADER357 Před rokem +1

      @@totoitekelcha7628 I am Bulgarian not Russian and i am not bot.

  • @Primus54
    @Primus54 Před rokem +1

    I’m glad I decided to watch the entire video because the glaring error at the very beginning saying Michael Collins was on the surface nearly caused me to conclude the remainder would be just as suspect. You ought to pin a comment acknowledging the error.

  • @RubitheRacoon
    @RubitheRacoon Před rokem +1

    i don like the idea of living forever, but if it meant i could go to space and see the things ive wanted to see since i was small, it would be worth everything

  • @ronpapi9539
    @ronpapi9539 Před rokem +3

    No Space, just lights in our Creators Firmament.

    • @bco-fm5qu
      @bco-fm5qu Před rokem +1

      Most religious people will take this as an insult. This is biblicism at the max.

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      @@bco-fm5qu Religious people must agree with Genesis 1.14.If not that makes you an Atheist.

    • @bco-fm5qu
      @bco-fm5qu Před rokem +2

      @@ronpapi9539 I'm assuming you're talking about the saying "lights in the firmament of the heaven" which means God is creating the sun, moon, and stars. "firmament" in the Bible refers to the expanse of the heavens or the sky. Clearly this is biblicism. This was made easier to understand in the ESV version and now refers to "And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years". Let me guess you're one of the people who think everyone should use the King James Version

    • @bco-fm5qu
      @bco-fm5qu Před rokem +2

      @@ronpapi9539 Roasted?

    • @ronpapi9539
      @ronpapi9539 Před rokem

      @@bco-fm5qu You're bypassing the Firmament.Seperates the Waters above from the eaters below.Splain?

  • @gabriel-anthonypitter3286

    Misinformation

  • @amgguy4319
    @amgguy4319 Před rokem +1

    I have always loved the Gold Foil haphazardly Scotch-taped on the flight module.

  • @seanstubbs1743
    @seanstubbs1743 Před rokem

    I believe the term for it is saturation contrast, due to lack of atmosphere to diffuse light the nearer objects being so bright it drowns out the dimmer light of the star and other celestial bodies.

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 Před rokem +1

    I bet it really felt like "The Truman Show" effect when they first went to space and could only see a void of utter blackness

  • @nativetexan9776
    @nativetexan9776 Před rokem +2

    I am a Ham Radio operator and we are able to talk to the astronauts aboard the International space station. I will wait for their next pass and ask them if they see the stars.

    • @gives_bad_advice
      @gives_bad_advice Před rokem +1

      THAT IS SO COOL!
      Here's one... did you know it's possible to see the ISS from Earth of you look thorough a good quality telescope? I even see one picture that the photographer claims shows an astronaut doing a spacewalk outsided the ISS. So, conceivably you could see AND talk to someone up there.

  • @E4S65
    @E4S65 Před rokem

    When you are star gazing you make it a point to turn off lights around you and keep the light down as much as possible. Now imagine you are in full sunlight and the entire ground is pretty reflective too. Also even when it’s dark it take some work even with even modern cameras to take pictures of stars, you need to use bigger sensors/film and have to take long exposures, measured in not fractions of a second but SECONDS plural! With a crop sensors in DSLRs you basically need to take around 30 second exposure. Show even a tiny spot lit by sunlight and it would blow out the whole sensor at that exposure, making everything look white in the picture!

  • @JohnW704
    @JohnW704 Před rokem +1

    This was explained a long time ago and I thought it was common sense by now but it's surprising how many people still are getting fooled by this.

  • @anthill-2sadler708
    @anthill-2sadler708 Před rokem

    after I got older and went back to watch the film of Apollo 11. . I wondered the same thing and still wonder what happened to the stars in the background...

  • @SmokinZen
    @SmokinZen Před rokem

    High up on the Big island of Hawaii the stars in the sky looked so big it felt like you could reach out and touch them. Sadly man has lost so many places like that

  • @TheNeonRabbit
    @TheNeonRabbit Před rokem +1

    For the same reason you can't hear a humming bird flapping its wings next to a freight train

  • @WNYXeb777
    @WNYXeb777 Před 3 měsíci

    I got a question. Ok - so you can't see stars in space because of background light and high albedo's of the surroundings. When the command module was on the back side of the moon and the lunar albedo dropped to zero and cabin lights momentarily extinguished - were they then visible? -

  • @soubhagyajena4172
    @soubhagyajena4172 Před rokem

    What is the name of that music which you played at starting of the video ? Please reply me

  • @willistrillion
    @willistrillion Před rokem

    👍Amazing explanation sir!😃

  • @jerm_
    @jerm_ Před rokem +1

    crazy how people will just write off all of astronomy and science just because of something as simple as not understanding how exposure works.

  • @muppetonmeds
    @muppetonmeds Před rokem +1

    Well, that blows my theory that stars run when they see us coming.

  • @geauxracerx
    @geauxracerx Před rokem

    Relative brightness. Same reason if you go outside and look at the sky you don’t see the entire Milky Way or every star. It’s why to capture those things you need long exposure shots and camera mounts that rotate so to prevent the stars from being streaks across the image.

  • @trm4life
    @trm4life Před rokem +2

    This isn't difficult to understand but some people just refuse to believe the explanation.

  • @awen777
    @awen777 Před rokem +1

    But initially when asked they said they did not remember seeing any stars at all. That would be through their eyes, not the camera .

  • @MrVinnysWorld
    @MrVinnysWorld Před rokem +1

    "We're going to explain why"
    *proceeds to explain everything else*

    • @officialinterstellarnews
      @officialinterstellarnews  Před rokem +1

      100% explained why lol.

    • @MrVinnysWorld
      @MrVinnysWorld Před rokem

      @@officialinterstellarnews I agree but geez that was a lot. Maybe it's just me but I was hoping to go straight into it