Why does the moon and stars come out at night?

Answer 1

The stars are always there. But during the day, the glare of the sun's light being refracted all around makes the sky look blue, and the blue of the sky is brighter than the distant stars. If you could get down into a deep pit and look straight up at the sky, you might be able to see the brighter stars even in the daytime.

And during a solar eclipse, when the Sun's light is blocked by the Moon, the stars are also visible.

Answer 2

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is, of course, apparent motion and not true motion.

Most people know that the Sun "rises in the east and sets in the west". However, most people don't realize that is a generalization. Actually, the Sun only rises due east and sets due west on 2 days of the year -- the spring and fall equinoxes! On other days, the Sun rises either north or south of "due east" and sets north or south of "due west."

Each day the rising and setting points change slightly. At the summer solstice, the Sun rises as far to the northeast as it ever does, and sets as far to the northwest. Every day after that, the Sun rises a tiny bit further south.

At the fall equinox, the Sun rises due east and sets due west. It continues on it's journey southward until, at the winter solstice, the Sun rises are far to the south as it ever does, and sets as far to the southwest.

Many, if not most, prehistoric cultures tracked these rising and settings points with great detail. If they had jagged mountains along the horizon, the exact points could be readily remembered. Without a suitably interesting horizon, standing stones could be arranged to line up with the various rising and setting points. Or, tree poles could replace the standing stones. Or, rock cairns could be used.

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Answer 3

Depends. What do you consider "star" shaped. It's obviously not a five pointed shape, the way we normally draw stars. Star shapes may vary but since we are so far away from them, we see the shape of it's light that it emits. We can't actually see the star because it's light is too bright so when we look up at the night sky, we're seeing the light of it. And because of it's distance, it appears fairly small in size when actually, it bigger than you can ever imagine!

Answer 4

The moon appears at night because it reflects sunlight, which is why it is visible in the darkness. Stars are always present in the sky, but they are only visible at night when the sun's light does not overpower them. The rotation of the Earth causes the change from day to night, allowing the moon and stars to be visible in the night sky.

Answer 5

StarsBecause the stars are bright like the sun so we can only see the sun in the day though they are still there. MoonBecause the moon is around at the other side of the earth when it is day.

Answer 6

Like the sun, everything rises from the east. However most of stars you see have already risen long before you see them. Because of the sun, it is much to bright to see them. Once the sun goes down, they all start to appear. The brightest ones appear first. As the sun has set to the west, the sky is brighter there, so looking closer to the east is where many will start to appear first. During the summer the days are long and even when the sun sets, it is not so far below the horizon so the nights are not so dark. During the winter, when the sun sets earlier and much quicker and things get a lot darker, it is easier to see the stars start to shine. What can be fun to do is to try and see them starting to shine. This can take time and patience. However, if you know where a particularly bright star is likely to appear, you can go out shortly after sunset, or even go to a window, and look in that general direction and see if you can see it, or some other star, beginning to shine.

Answer 7

The stars that do rise do so in the east set in the west, just like the sun. It is because of the rotation of the earth. As is the case with the sun, the rising and setting of stars is an apparent motion and not a true motion; the sun and stars do not orbit around the earth. Depending on your location, some stars never go below the horizon.

Answer 8

The Sun always rises in the East. In Placerville, CA, the spring and summer Sun rise from the northeast, and the fall and winter Sun rises from the southeast. But the general direction is always east.

Answer 9

Stars do rise and set just like our sun, a star. While the rising and setting position of our sun changes daily, the position of other stars when they rise or set does not change. The times that they rise or set will change each day.

Answer 10

At night, it means we can't see the sun. But the sun still shines on the moon (just as it continues to shine on the other side of the earth). At various times of the month we can see the part of the moon that is lit by the sun, and it can look quite bright, but not enough to turn our day into night. There is an old joke "Of the sun and moon, the moon is most valuable for light, because the sun only shines during the day, when it is light anyway".