><i>Only 24 people have journeyed far enough to see the whole Earth against the black of space. The images they brought back changed our world.</i><p>What "black of space"? It's black because of the dynamic range of those films and exposing for Earth. Otherwise it's full of stars, more and brighter than you'd see in a moonless night on Earth away from light pollution.<p>As Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden put it, going to the shaded side of the moon (as on the sun hit side reflections drown the stars):<p>“I curved around the moon to where no sunlight or Earthshine could reach me. The moon was a deep, solid circle of blackness, and I could only tell where it began by where the stars cut off. In the dark and quiet, I felt like a bird of the night, silently gliding and falling around the moon, never touching. I turned the cabin lights off. There was no end to the stars.<p>I could see tens, perhaps hundreds of times more stars than the clearest, darkest night on Earth. With no atmosphere to blur their light, I could see them all to the limits of my eyesight. There were so many, I could no longer find constellations. My vision was filled with a blaze of starlight".