How do stars look at night?

Night Sky Show the video “Rising Milky Way and Lightning” and use the link “Night Sky” to show the Big Dipper (drag mouse over the picture to display outline).

How do the stars look at night?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1028.html

Look at the picture again, but this time try to predict how many stars you see. Like what you see?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1028.html

How many stars did you predict? There are more stars in the sky than anyone can easily count! How many stars did you predict? Too many? That’s right!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1028.html