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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
There was a nice shot of the earth and moon together in space taken from China’s Chang’e-5 T1 lunar test flight today. The far side of the moon is not quite as visually interesting as the near side. Note the lack of stars. I'm sure somebody will be screaming hoax. 
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The light from the stars gets washed out by the light from our star in every picture taken in space. The Apollo 11 astronauts found out what the sun can do to a camera when it's not protected by an atmosphere when they turned their TV camera toward the sun and immediately burned out the lens circuitry.
The Earth and the moon only show up in this picture because of the extremely bright light from the solar mass reflecting off of them.