Space is fake and gay, but I haven't come up with a plausible explanation for stars. Perhaps they are more directional with their light output? Either way they are not effective at lighting anything, they're just dim dots in the night sky. I do think the moon is likely a reflection of the sun on the firmament; that's the only thing that makes sense with how the moon follows the sun and how we only see one side of it. I think there is a lot that we are not privy to that will explain the stars better, like maybe we live in a tiny containment prison of the actual world.

I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. I don't care what anybody else thinks. I personally think we have never been to the moon, because space is fake and gay. I also think (((they))) are hiding something from us on the outer reaches of our non-spherical earth. I'd liken the sunset to an illusion of a very long hallway where the walls, floor and ceiling all seem to converge at the end, just in this case the sun gets so far away that it no longer projects light after a few thousand miles because of that hallway effect (the floor gets in the way).

I'd like to do an experiment with a long hallway, or maybe even just outside on a flat plane like the salt flats, a table on one end (to simulate the clouds) and a handheld fire torch to simulate the sun and see what the light from the fire does as you get further away. Also the effect of changing elevation as it would if the earth were a sphere: if the top of the table would be illuminated, and when the fire would no longer illuminate the table at all.