Why does the sky appear dark to an astronaut in space when there is vacuum in space and therefore nothing to absorb the light. Sun gives out white light. And there is no matter to absorb white light, so sky should appear white and not dark? Because something appears dark only when it absorbs all the light from the source and does not reflect any light. But there is vacuum in space and therefore nothing to absorb all of the light. All of the books answer the question 'Why does the sky appear dark to an astronaut in space?' as "In the earth's atmosphere, there are minute particles that scatter only light of short wavelength, i.e. blue light. But in space, there is complete vacuum in space, so there is no particulate matter to scatter light and therefore the sky appears dark to an astronaut.' But I have mentioned my argument as stated above.
2007-06-03
16:20:39
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Siddhartha
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