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Why are stars invisible during the day

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Why are stars invisible during the day

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  1. They are not bright enough and they are too far away.


  2. They are simply not bright enough to discern over the much brighter daytime sky.


  3. Because it is to bright for them to show up during the day and they glow and blend in with the sky the further you go up of course above the Stratosphere layer of our atmosphere. The sun is bright.  

  4. Stars are very faint. The bright light of the Sun outshines them. This is partly because of the blue light being scattered by the atmosphere (what we call the "sky") being brighter than the stars. It's also because during the day, your eyes adjust for bright light conditions, which makes the stars appear even fainter.

    Try this - at night, go look at a bright light, like a lit window, or a street light, or something like this. Then after your eyes adjust, look up and you'll notice that you can hardly see the stars. Close your eyes for a minute and then look at the sky - lots more stars, or at least they'll be a lot easier to see.

  5. The sun is much closer to us and makes the sky too bright for the faint light of other stars to show up.

  6. Stars do glow during the day, but we can't see them because of the glare of sunlight. When the sun is up, the blue color in sunlight gets scattered all over the atmosphere, turning the sky the familiar bright blue color. This blue light is much brighter than the faint light coming from the stars, so it prevents us from seeing them.

    Let's say you were on the Moon. You would be able to see the stars both day and night because the Moon has no atmosphere.

  7. Because the light of the sun (which is, of course, our own local star) reflected and refracted off of minute particles in the atmosphere, is so bright as to obscure the light from most stars. The starlight is literally lost in the glare.

    Just after sunrise and in the evening some stars will be visible, and during a solar eclipse all of the normally visible stars can be seen.

  8. The brightness of the sun overshadows them if you hold up a long piece of pipe or stand in a deep hole and look up you will see the stars because your eyes are shaded from the overwhelming light of our sun.

  9. Stars are invisible during the day because they are not bright enough  to see it even with the glare of sunlight.  

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