Are there stars in outer space?

[bruzz]

I just finished watching a Eric Dollard youtube video titled the Sun is cold and electric where he states you can't see the sun in free space and there are no stars, until you view them through the atmosphere or matter. I believe i remember the Apollo 11 photos not containing stars, so that would seem to confirm his theory as the moon contains very little if any atmosphere.

 

[TheOldSchool]

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[ABikerSailor]

I just finished watching a Eric Dollard youtube video titled the Sun is cold and electric where he states you can't see the sun in free space and there are no stars, until you view them through the atmosphere or matter. I believe i remember the Apollo 11 photos not containing stars, so that would seem to confirm his theory as the moon contains very little if any atmosphere.

If it takes viewing stars through atmosphere to make them visible, then can you explain why the Hubble Space Telescope works?

It's in orbit far away from any atmosphere, and it has yielded some of the best pictures of stars that we have.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I just finished watching a Eric Dollard youtube video titled the Sun is cold and electric where he states you can't see the sun in free space and there are no stars, until you view them through the atmosphere or matter. I believe i remember the Apollo 11 photos not containing stars, so that would seem to confirm his theory as the moon contains very little if any atmosphere.

If it takes viewing stars through atmosphere to make them visible, then can you explain why the Hubble Space Telescope works?

It's in orbit far away from any atmosphere, and it has yielded some of the best pictures of stars that we have.

lol

 

[mamooth]

I believe i remember the Apollo 11 photos not containing stars,

It's just basic photography. Those old Apollo photos used very fast exposure times, because the lunar foreground was lit up even more brilliantly than a sunny day on earth. The stars are very dim in comparison, so they don't show on a fast exposure.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Apparently, a Star in outerspace is just like MSNBC's viewing audience: It doesn't exist.

 

[Mr. H.]

As a Conservative, I'm told that I don't believe in science.

So I'd have to say no, there are no stars in outer space.

 

[TheOldSchool]

As a Conservative, I'm told that I don't believe in science.

So I'd have to say no, there are no stars in outer space.

Hell I'VE never been to space. God knows what those shiny fuckers up there really are.

 

[bruzz]

Okay, I would say the reponses would favor that stars do exist, lol. It would suck to find a suitable planet to inhabit, then get to outer space and not have it be there. Now all we have to do is somehow get there.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I hate you extremist! Fund science, education and infrastructure. NOW!

I bet he's black. No doubt right Matt?

 

[westwall]

No, there are no stars. They are really bright theatre lights....

 

[freedombecki]

No, there are no stars. They are really bright theatre lights....

I never noticed stars much until I was 4 years old, and my Grandpa pointed them out to me. I was fascinated. I loved the stars ever since that magic moment a lifetime ago.

 

[Mr. H.]

No, there are no stars. They are really bright theatre lights....

I never noticed stars much until I was 4 years old, and my Grandpa pointed them out to me. I was fascinated. I loved the stars ever since that magic moment a lifetime ago.

I was only 2-1/2 but I vividly remember standing in front of the house with my parents and a bunch of people looking up at the night sky and hearing them talk about the Rooskies and the Sputnik.

 

[westwall]

No, there are no stars. They are really bright theatre lights....

I never noticed stars much until I was 4 years old, and my Grandpa pointed them out to me. I was fascinated. I loved the stars ever since that magic moment a lifetime ago.

I was only 2-1/2 but I vividly remember standing in front of the house with my parents and a bunch of people looking up at the night sky and hearing them talk about the Rooskies and the Sputnik.

I watched Sputnik with my binoculars.......damn I'm old

 

[Old Rocks]

Ah yes, Sputnik, 1957.

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[Delta4Embassy]

I just finished watching a Eric Dollard youtube video titled the Sun is cold and electric where he states you can't see the sun in free space and there are no stars, until you view them through the atmosphere or matter. I believe i remember the Apollo 11 photos not containing stars, so that would seem to confirm his theory as the moon contains very little if any atmosphere.

(counts to ten...)

We see the Sun because it's emitting or reflecting light, not because it's also hot. We 'see' extrasolar planets because of this same process, not because they're hot.

As to why space photos don't show stars, they do. You don't see them for the same reason we can't see them during the daytime on Earth - light is washing them out from view just as in those pictures light from the camera's flash washed out what the astronauts themselves could see.