why are there no stars in the background whenever NASA shows television space footage?

Answer 1

when they show stuff on TV they have to turn the bright way down on the camera because the videos are shot in the sunward side of the spaceship. if they left it normal the camera would just show bright white

Answer 2

It is purely a photographic thing.

If you flood your yard with huge amounts of light, not only would you not be able to photo the stars, your eye pupils would stop down in the same way as the camera lens and you would not see the stars.

Quite simple to test yourself. Nothing fishy about it, old son.

Answer 3

Because the lens setting on their camera is focused on something fairly close, not at infinity. I can do the same thing with my binoculars or 35 mm camera lens. The stars will just disappear.

Answer 4

Because there was too much light. The astronauts had to use light to capture pictures of each other so that light washed out the stars.

Answer 5

also, the atmosphere of the earth has something to do with not letting all that detail come through. Space shuttles and orbiting satellites don't fully get out of the atmosphere. Once we get farther away, such as the moon, we can see all that

Answer 6

For the same reason there are no stars in pictures you take yourself at night. They are to dim to photograph without a long time exposure.

Answer 7

Obviously because the stars are FAR above where NASA goes..Stars are FAR above the moon, etc

Answer 8

2 much light

Answer 9

well stars are way too far away too even see right there in space and the stars are traveling way too fast to see anyway. we can see tham on earth because were further away and its proof tested that sometimes when your farther away you can see things a lot better s therefore we can see them. hope that helped a little bit.good question though.

Answer 10

it's been asked sooooo many times before