can you see stars from space

[asap1]

so heres the weird thing in all the pictures /videos of the space station you never see stars (is this just an effect of the camera technique) do you have to be on the dark side? can human during a spacewalk  see them? are there any pictures of stars in space? I have so many questions ( note non conspiracy theory I know It sound kinda like that) 

sorry for bad plurals

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Hubble - so yeah. 

Also ISS:

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/science-and-nature/4872204-Shine-your-little-light-International-Space-Station

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/science/story/astronaut-aboard-iss-shares-stunning-night-timelapse-video-of-milky-way-watch-1791603-2021-04-16

 

(note: time-lapse just like on earth) 

 

Here's an answer from a guy who lived up there 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/milky-way-look-like-iss-2/amp

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by JoeSchmuckatelli

[tater]

1 minute ago, asap1 said:

so heres the weird thing in all the pictures /videos of the space station you never see stars (is this just an effect of the camera technique) do you have to be on the dark side? can human during a spacewalk  see them? are there any pictures of stars in space? I have so many questions ( note non conspiracy theory I know It sound kinda like that) 

sorry for bad plurals

Because it's often daytime in the images. The sun is so bright, lesser sources are hard to see.  While you could look to the anti-solar point and expect stars in deep space, in LEO the reflected light from the Earth itself is incredibly bright as well, so even that is too bright.

In some of the livestream from ISS today you could actually see the Moon (during daylight).

At night (in the earth's shadow), the starts are visible from LEO.

 

Sadly the video cuts off just as the day is expunging the stars, otherwise it would be more instructive.

The exposure on this doesn't show the stars well vs the upper vid, but is 1 orbit.

 

[cubinator]

You can see the stars as long as you block out the Sun, Earth, and Moon from your vision. They're too bright and your eyes have to adjust to darkness to see stars.

[kerbiloid]

Of course the stars are visible from space, because SLBM use them for trajectory adjustment and correction.

Edited June 22, 2021 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

On 6/20/2021 at 11:15 PM, kerbiloid said:

Of course the stars are visible form space, because SLBM use them for trajectory adjustment and correction.

So the Flat Earth types seek to escape Damocles' Sword. Never imagined that angle.

[Blaarkies]

I always felt a similar but opposite question is: "Why can't you see stars during the day? (while on the Earth)". 

The answer is quite obviously because the sky is too bright (since you can see a full moon during daytime, and it feels so weird to use a telescope to look at the moon during daytime). At night, the only difference is that the sky is not "blinding" us with scattered/reflected sunlight. The atmosphere is the same (roughly speaking), nothing else changed much either, but suddenly it is easy to see stars.

The truth is that the light from stars are still hitting our eyes even during the day, but compared to bright daylight we don't notice them. Same reason for eyes/cameras in space, everything else in the picture is too bright to make out the stars

 

[mikegarrison]

Just like how you can't see stars in the daytime, it's hard to see stars when you are in sunlight in space. Easy to see them when you are not in sunlight.

[kerbiloid]

That's why space telescopes and spy sats have a shield.

Spoiler

And SLBM have a turret eye.

Spoiler

 

(I know, this sat looks at ground, but the picture of the shield is the most illustrative)