Was the Solar System Designed with a Protective Shell? From Apollo Images to the Heliopause

Apollo astronauts took thousands of photographs on the Moon. In many of them, the sky is completely black and not a single star appears. It is easy to think that space should be full of light, so why did the cameras record only darkness? NASA’s technical answer is that the exposure was set for the bright lunar ground and the astronauts’ suits; the much fainter stars could not register. That answer is sound, but th...

Apollo astronauts took thousands of photographs on the Moon. In many of them, the sky is completely black and not a single star appears. It is easy to think that space should be full of light, so why did the cameras record only darkness? NASA’s technical answer is that the exposure was set for the bright lunar ground and the astronauts’ suits; the much fainter stars could not register. That answer is sound, but th...

Apollo astronauts took thousands of photographs on the Moon. In many of them, the sky is completely black and not a single star appears. It is easy to think that space should be full of light, so why did the cameras record only darkness? NASA’s technical answer is that the exposure was set for the bright lunar ground and the astronauts’ suits; the much fainter stars could not register. That answer is sound, but th...

Apollo astronauts took thousands of photographs on the Moon. In many of them, the sky is completely black and not a single star appears. It is easy to think that space should be full of light, so why did the cameras record only darkness? NASA’s technical answer is that the exposure was set for the bright lunar ground and the astronauts’ suits; the much fainter stars could not register. That answer is sound, but th...