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Our experience of "daylight" is caused by the atmosphere. Without our atmosphere the sky would be entirely dark all of the time, except for the exact spot where the sun is. Our atmosphere scatters light in all directions and this is what creates "daylight". The atmostphere creates the "blue" appearance of the sky. In space there is no atmosphere, so light does not scatter. Consequently only objects that receive direct sunlight will be illuminated and everything else will be darkness. --- Extra ---

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  • Why is it dark in space
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  • Our experience of "daylight" is caused by the atmosphere. Without our atmosphere the sky would be entirely dark all of the time, except for the exact spot where the sun is. Our atmosphere scatters light in all directions and this is what creates "daylight". The atmostphere creates the "blue" appearance of the sky. In space there is no atmosphere, so light does not scatter. Consequently only objects that receive direct sunlight will be illuminated and everything else will be darkness. --- Extra ---
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  • Our experience of "daylight" is caused by the atmosphere. Without our atmosphere the sky would be entirely dark all of the time, except for the exact spot where the sun is. Our atmosphere scatters light in all directions and this is what creates "daylight". The atmostphere creates the "blue" appearance of the sky. In space there is no atmosphere, so light does not scatter. Consequently only objects that receive direct sunlight will be illuminated and everything else will be darkness. --- Extra --- In space, there's nothing to reflect the light back to your eyes as it is here on earth. Here we have the atmosphere, and everything around us in the air which can reflect sun light. In space, there's no such thing other than the planets, which is why you'd see the moon, and the other planets as sunlight reflects of them...but only them as around them it's just a vacuum. Had we been in a gas cloud or a similar constellation the night sky would have looked much, much different as then there would have been quite a bit of light scatter when the sun light hits the gas...it would probably have been quite beautiful actually, yet not very dark at any point in time.
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