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For the same reason that the stars are visible from Earth - most of the space in between is completely empty, and air is transparent. You can't see stars (other than the sun) during the day because the sun is bright enough that it illuminates the air enough to overpower them, like a single person whispering in a large cheering crowd. The light reflected off of the moon by the sun is, however, bright enough to be seen during the day, though not as clearly as at night. This has a lot to do with the fact that the moon is only 240,000 miles away, while the nearest star is 3 light-years away. Because it orbits Earth, therefore we can see it. ... Well, that's almost correct, but the real reason we can see the Moon from the Earth is that it (the Moon) reflects sunlight during most of its orbit around the earth. When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, that period of the Moon's orbit it is essentially 'invisible' since the sun's glare makes the moon impossible to see. We call this period the "New" Moon. If you can picture in your mind the earth revolving around the Sun, and the Moon revolving around the Earth at the same time, you can see how at some point, the Moon is in between Earth and the Sun, and therefor gets 'lost' in the sun's glare.

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