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all insects and most animals can't see the stars
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damn that's fascinating
Some moths migrate for hundreds of miles using stars to guide them
Heck, most humans in urban areas also can't see stars 🤷♂️
That's a bit silly. Many animals have far better vision than humans, such as birds of prey. Even many mammals have far better night vision. I'm positive even dogs and cats without eyesight problems can see stars.
Whether they fully comprehend what they're looking at is a different question, as if humans are any good at truly comprehending the scale of space, either...
A lot of animals can't see at all. Or at least not by our standards. For example, most spiders would be legally blind. They do have a lot of eyes but they function more like motion detectors.
There are some notable exceptions, like wolf- and jumping spiders, though. But they usually don't have a big focal length, so not sure if those could see stars.
I live in an urban environment. I can't see the stars either
here's a nice video for you: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zPHLojHUCvk
it shows how most animals move through the world: they can only see the trees and stuff next to them; it takes humans to see the stars.
this is just an absolutely amazing image IMHO
Umm, not sure how factual this is. Many nocturnal animals use the stara for navigation.
Even if so, i keep having a dream that humans are the only species capable of developing spaceflight, because no other species has technology of the level necessary for that. So in a sense, humans might not be the only ones to be able to see the stars but we sure are the only species able to reach them.
We can't even say that. We haven't reached the stars. We also dont know whats out there. For all we know we're the last eyes birthed by a dying universe to witness its end.
I love that image
I wonder what Mantis Shrimp see...
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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