Composite photo of the slowest - spinning neutron star discovered so far (9 - 2016):
background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW 103, photographed in X-ray wavelengths, with the white neutron star at its center.
It's similar to why you don't really see
stars in Apollo photos from the moon — the subjects being
photographed were so much brighter than the
background stars that the exposures weren't long enough to capture the
stars.