Comments on: Where are the stars? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/?src=earthmatters-rss Earth is an amazing planet, and the one that matters most to us. Let’s have a conversation about it. Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug Bowen http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-11399 Doug Bowen Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:27:22 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-11399 I’m not surpprised to see some Astronaut photos showed no stars in the sky. I can’t remember the last time I saw stars in the night sky. When I look up at night all I can see is a completely Black sky except for the moon. I’ve been told the reason for this is the ambient lighting in my location. The country from Miami to Boston is so densely populated that the cities, the shopping centers and just the normal residential lighting is enough to block out the stars.

Could this possibly be true?

]]> By: alon http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-10694 alon Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:53:16 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-10694 great post

]]> By: Mike Carlowicz http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-10676 Mike Carlowicz Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:31:29 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-10676 Amelie — The auroras were a result of a serious of storms on the sun — a combo of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. You can learn a bit about it here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=76998

]]> By: Amelie Thomson http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-10675 Amelie Thomson Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:11:17 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-10675 Hi Mike

Talking about stars just the other day in the UK we had something called the northern light here is a picture here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16685364

Do you know any reason why this happened, i heard it might have something to do with the stars.

Regards
Amelie Thomson

]]> By: Cedrick Bonita http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-10415 Cedrick Bonita Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:06:40 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-10415 I don’t even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are, but certainly you’re going to a famous blogger if you are not already ;) Cheers!

]]> By: Carey http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-8705 Carey Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:27:33 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-8705 The explanation for the bottom two photos misses the main difference. The first photo was shot a night, with a longer exposure time and the earth dimly illuminated by moonlight. The second photo was taken during the day, with the earth brightly illuminated by the sun and with a correspondingly shorter exposure.

]]> By: Amoeba http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-8696 Amoeba Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:42:34 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-8696 When I hear about the absence of stars, it reminded me of this same observation being used by conspiracy theorists to falsely dispute the genuineness of the Apollo photographs taken on the moon’s surface.

]]> By: DaveS http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2011/09/28/where-are-the-stars/#comment-8015 DaveS Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:49:52 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=442#comment-8015 On the subject of seeing of stars in space, I’m curious if the stars visible to Astronauts on the ISS are at the same visual limit as we typically see here on earth at a dark location. Given optimal conditions, new moon, ISS deep in the earth shadow, and lights turned down on the station, eyes dark adapted and so on, can the astronauts see more?

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