Why is space so unrealistically black and empty of stars in the bubble?

[WR3ND]

You say that like the Big Bang is something more than an adult fairy tale. I hate to break it to you. But unless a time machine is invented, it can't really be chalked up as anything other than conjecture. Just because something isn't contradicted by what we know, doesn't mean its a fact. It just means its not a stupid idea. Nothing is proven until its witnessed. If eat a cookie when no one is looking, I can say the dog ate it. From the point of view of everyone else, there is nothing that shows the dog didn't eat it. It has as much supporting evidence as the Big Bang Theory. But in reality the dog didn't eat the cookie, I did.

It has to do with what observable evidence there is and what seems the most logically credible and likely. This evidence points toward a "big bang" more than anything else, currently, whether or not we like it or if that is actually what happened, but this is getting off topic.

 

[Turbosnowy]

So not sure if anyone said this yet, but the theory of light being bent by gravity was based on the idea that if something wasn't bending light then the sky wouldn't be dark - it would be blinding with light from all the suns everywhere hitting us all the time - so what could bend it? Science ensued and rest is history as proven by an eclipse as I recall which showed a shift in star position which proved the theory. Am sure any number of folks will now correct my ramblings.

More on topic What always got me was footage from cams on astronauts on the international spacestation, going out to fix whatnot and space was black, like totally void, no beautiful galaxy star scapes, but pure black... I guess that's light and focus and whatnot, but it seems either we see more stars on the ground than they do, or they have too many lights on to show what they do see - if the latter, then I wanna see it too Or of course it's all fake and we never made it space and they are doing some stuff in a warehouse in Watford.

 

[WR3ND]

It most likely just has to do with the light balance levels and clarity of the cameras in general.

Of course there are stars in space that you could see from space, much better than here on Earth, provided it's dark enough for you to see them.

Light reflected from the Earth is very bright. You can even see the dark side of the moon with it (in this context, the dark side being what isn't illuminated directly with sunlight).

I'll resist commenting on the various aspects of relativity and gravity, as it could lead into too much of a tangent and potential controversy among certain people, it seems.