2006-08-02 07:07:27 · 9 answers · asked by Don Dons! 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If something is black, it means no light comes from it to stimulate your retina and so it looks black to you.
The reason why the stars seem bright/white/whatever colour is that they emit light... it has travelled a long way... and it strikes your retina
There may well be stars/suns in the black spots but maybe the light from them has not reached your eyes yet.
Why don't you go get better eyes and speed up the speed of light? :) then the sky will be bright for you day AND night
2006-08-02 07:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
area is darkish, yet not pitch black. The sunlight is the closest gentle source, yet basically certainly one of a lot and a lot of stars. in case you have been able to circulate to a close-by action picture star the sunlight might look as though a small gentle and the interior sight action picture star might seem to be the source of all gentle. Even on earth there is a few chemoluminescence, or gentle that doesn't come from the sunlight. If the sunlight have been destroyed it would be very very darkish right here, yet gentle might certainly proceed.
2016-12-11 05:14:56 · answer #2 · answered by nurdin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is black because there is nothing there. It's not some special gas only out there, it's nothing. What we see is light _reflected_ off something. In space, since there's nothing, there's also nothing for light to reflect off of and into our eyes. Also, you cannot see light in travel.
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2006-08-02 07:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Outer space appears black because there is little mass for the light to reflect off of. That is one of the reasons our sky appears blue is the diffusion of light off of the gasses in the Earth's atmosphere.
2006-08-02 07:14:33 · answer #4 · answered by MeKnow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question. There is a lot of gas and dust in space that absorb a lot of wavelengths, especially visible light. If you look in other wavelengths there is much more activity.
2006-08-02 07:25:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would, but the empty voids have nothing in them to reflect the light off of.
2006-08-02 07:12:33 · answer #6 · answered by fishing66833 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its' kinda strange though when i think about how right now the sky is bright blue, but tonight when the sun sets, it will go back to being black and transparent again.
reflection. ain't it a *****?
2006-08-02 07:18:02 · answer #7 · answered by sparkloom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is known as Olbers' paradox. best to check out the wiki url below for some well reasoned explanations!
2006-08-02 07:42:19 · answer #8 · answered by waif 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it should be light purple =]
2006-08-02 07:15:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋