2006-12-09 08:48:14 · 9 answers · asked by whynow 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well first off all there is no such thing as colour... Let me explain. It is light rays bouncing off our retinas forming this "colour" in our minds. Things aren't ACTUALLY blue or red, it's our mind relaying these colours to us.
So the answer to your question is: Different for everyone. If a dog was in space, it would continue you to see grey.
2006-12-09 08:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by San Jose 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What do you mean? Do you mean in the inky blackness? No. Do you mean that if an object is right in front of you in space, does it have color? Of course if there is light shining on it. Do you mean is there color where there are no humans? Let me put it this way. There may be an alien species whose "visible" light is in the x-ray range. So they can distinguish between millions of varieties of xray emanations. Do those colors exist on earth where there is no such alien? Well, those wavelengths do.
2006-12-09 09:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As before stated the colors that we see are just reflections of light bouncing off objects. In space there nothing for the light to bounce off of except the things that we already see. But I guess you weren't asking that. So in short form Yes there is color there because there is light we just cannot see it.
2006-12-09 09:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by queen_of_hearts12685 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Color is the way that our brain interprets photons interacting with our retina. Color its self may have no actual physical existence.
The stimuli that cause color in our brains are a band of photons which have wavelengths between ~400 - 700nm and these are abundant in space.
2006-12-09 09:31:24 · answer #4 · answered by DrSean 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm gonna take a wild guess from what i remember in my former studies n say....
wow....ok, i did have an answer....but then i thought about it n changed my mind...at 1st, i was gonna say no--due to space being a void and any light from planets, moons, etc. being reflections of their nearest star(s)....i thought about saying yes, due to the reflection and our perceptions of that reflection...but then i thought again and was reminded of how we see colour everywhere due to our atmosphere.....
which brings me to my final conclusion--
yes there is some colour out there, but only due to the gases that make up the atmospheres of most planets....as far as moons--i can't picture anything but grey (can someone tell me different? ie: someone that's actually been there)....and as far as stars--i'm sure there is some colour, because were were taught that different colours in stars are based on their heat--and being that stars are made up of gases as well....again...any astronaut that has been outside earth's atmosphere, PLEASE read and answer this....because ya'll would be the only ones to offer a true answer....
:0)
2006-12-09 08:57:52 · answer #5 · answered by jazzd4jc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
color as far as humans are concerned is based on how light signals are processed by the eye, just as sound is a function of vibrations being detected by the human ear (as such your question is similar to the question that asks if a tree falling in the jungle makes a sound if there's no one there to hear it).
in order words without the ear, sound is just a series of vibrations, and without the eye, color is just different wavelengths of light waves.
the answer to your question is yes...if there's a human eye there to see it!
2006-12-10 00:09:42 · answer #6 · answered by thexper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Color comes from light. So what do you think?
2006-12-09 08:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's pale turquoise. Check the CNN science article:
2006-12-09 08:55:38 · answer #8 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God only colored INSIDE the lines.
2006-12-09 08:53:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋