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Is the sun visible at night?

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The sun lights up the moon and that light is reflected back to earth making it viewable, the surrounding sky is dark because there is nothing there for the sun to shine light upon. The other stars in the sky create their own light.

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Because the sun is much brighter than the moon's relected light so you can't always see it. Sometimes you can see the moon in daylight because the moon is not yet close enough to the sun in its monthly orbit. Close to new moon it is impossible to see the moon.

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No. Whenever there are large moons, there can be eclipses. Space probes routinely photograph solar eclipses on Jupiter, when one of the Jovian moons casts its shadow on the giant planet. But since there is almost certainly no intelligent life on Jupiter (and the atmosphere would be too thick to see anything anyway) there is nobody there to appreciate the sight.

If the moon is too small, it cannot cause eclipses. The moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, are very small, and do not cast a shadow on Mars even when the moon comes between the Sun and Mars.

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Well, if they happened at night, then you'e be on the wrong side of the world to see them! :-)



Yes, you can only see a solar eclipse during the day time. Just as you can only see a lunar eclipse at night.

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Yes, because during the day, the sun's brightness is about 500X stronger than the one of a star. So because of this, the stars are almost impossible to see. Unless you have a super powerful telescope, you can't see the stars during the day.

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it's a new moon

There are two possible reasons why the moon sometimes cannot be seen. Either it is not in the right location for you to be able to see it (it may be visible from the other side of the planet Earth) or even if it is in the right position for you to see it, the sun may be positioned so that the moon is not illuminated on the side that faces you.

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you can't because the side of earth that you are at is facing the other day but it is facing the sun!!!!!

note that it actually is possible to see the moon during the day. i am from aus and alot of the time especially in winter i can see the sun bouncing off the moon even in the brightest of days. it really depends on the moons rotation and angle to the sun at ay time as to if it is visible or not

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There are several reasons that you cannot see the stars with your unaided eye during the day:

  • You can see one star during the day with your unaided eye, the Sun. It is bright and the atmosphere refracts and scatters the light from it so that the other stars can't be seen.
  • This is reinforced by the fact that during the day your eyes are not dark adapted. They cannot make out dim lights when they have limited their aperture to allow in only a portion of the bright light of the sun. As it gets closer to sunset, you can spot brighter planets, then stars.

You can see also stars with your unaided eyes during a total eclipse, when the Sun is not contributing as much light to the sky. With a telescope it is possible to see stars in the sky during the daytime. See the link for the procedures to follow.

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10y ago

The same reason why you can't see anything if you put your hands over your eyes; the light can't get to your eyes.

At night, the Sun is on the other side of the Earth from you. The Earth is like a big sphere; the Sun is shining throughout the solar system, but the Sun's light doesn't go through the rocks of the Earth.

And actually, you CAN see the Sun at night, the same way that you can look around corners by using a mirror. The Sun's light also illuminates Venus, and Mars, and Jupiter and Saturn, and especially the Moon. If you can see any of those objects (none of which generate their own light) you are seeing reflected sunlight.

That's what always puzzled me about vampire movies; vampires are killed by the Sun, but moonlight is just reflected sunlight! Moonlight should be able to at least HURT a vampire.....

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The Sun is ALWAYS shining; but at night, you are on the other side of the Earth, which spins.

And the Moon doesn't shine at all; it's just a big ball of rock. When you see it, what you are seeing is reflected sunlight, bouncing off of the rock.

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