if the sun is in space why is it dark?

Answer 1

The sun is only at ONE place in space.
But more specifically, for something to be bring, one needs something to be lighted. The moon, all the planets receive light from to sun and reflect it. If there is nothing to be lighted, then there is nothing to reflect the light back and there is nothing to be seen, and nothing to be seen seem dark and black.

Answer 2

I'm no space expert but i'll try to answer this question through observation. You see, space is so vast and the light of the sun dissipated into nothingness, which with our naked eye, we can't tell until another heavenly bodies reflect the light. Just like at night during full moon, what we see is the light of the sun reflected on the moon's surface (because the moon doesn't have it's own light) towards the earth which in turn shower us with a dull light. Same true with the light reflected by other planet in our solar system that we saw at night, which appears star like.

You see, the sun rays are not focus like a flashlight, otherwise we'll see a stream of visible light in space. This is the same true wiht stars, even with their countless numbers it is not enough to light the universe. With the vast distances from each other their lights seemed nothing up in the heavens as a whole but their lights are useful to places close to their proximities as our sun light is useful to us.

To further my answer to your question, try this experiment yourself. On a dark night, say when you go out camping next summer, light a candle on an open area or a safer strategy a flashlight, but take the head and reflector out just leave the bulb alone on top so when you turn it on it lights like a canlde. As I said put it in a safe place, you can even put a lot of stuff close by, and when you're ready start moving away from the light. You'll noticed the farther you move away from it the more objects close by the light become undicernible until such time that you reach the point that what you only see is the light from the candle or the flashlight, anything close by are nothing.

I hope I satisfied your question. Keep researching you may be a scientist someday and you can explain this phenomenon better.

Answer 3

Because the light from the sun needs things to reflect from.
It is dark away from the sun, but as a single light source you would not be able to look at it from space it would be too bright.
Light and heat are produced on earth by the reaction of the atmosphere with the suns energy.
In a vacuum like space no reaction takes place; it's the same reason that if you climbed Everest you would be nearer the sun but it would be colder not warmer due to the lack of atmosphere.

Answer 4

Why is WHAT dark?

The Sun is not dark.

Space is illuminated by the Sun.

When you look into what you call Space...light must have something to land upon (hit) for there to be illumination. If there
is nothing there, light just keeps on going. In the vast majority of Space, there is nothing. Am I making any sense to you?

Second try...

Tonight, go outside and look into the headlights of an approaching car. You will see the bright headlights and what else nearby? Most probably you will see little else because of the brightness of the headlights. Same thing with the Sun, unless the rays of light coming from the Sun hit upon something and light it up.

Answer 5

Have you ever watched a lamb in open atmosphere and compare its brightness to that in your room, well the last one seems to give more light, but it is simply things around you that reflect the light incident on it back to you, you can also notice that if the sun is hidden from your eyes there Will be light coming from every where, I can say that if you look directly to the sun in the outer space you will find it much brighter but away from it you will find nothing reflecting light so the space will be dark.

Answer 6

Why is space dark? It's not dark here in the daytime is it? If you mean why does it look dark even though there is often light shining through it - the reason is that light isnt hitting something thats gonna glow like a nice fluffy cloud. You can only see light when its headed in your direction. The most powerful laser in the world being fired through a vacuum would be totally invisible unless you were looking at it. Then of course you'd be dead but I hope you get my meaning. Light lights things up when it hits them. The vacuum of space isnt a 'thing' by this definition.

Answer 7

The simple answer is...we cannot see light unless its photons enter into our eyes. That can happen only if we look directly into the source of those photons or if those photons are reflected off something into our eyes.

Since there is nothing in deep space to reflect off, the light traveling from the Sun is not visible unless we look directly into it (don't try this, its harmful). Thus, it is dark...black actually...unless there is something, like a dust cloud, to reflect light from stellar sources like the Sun into our eyes.

By the way, the blue of our sky on Earth can be seen because of air reflected Sun light that has been filtered by the atmosphere to give the blue color.

Answer 8

Imagine you are in a dark room with just a dim bulb at one end of the room. You face the bulb and it is light, you can see - turn your back on the light and you are looking at your own shadow; it becomes dark and you cannot see.
Scale this idea up many times over and that is what happens. The earth revolves, as it does we alternately face the sun (daylight) and turn out backs to it (night time). This also explains why the time is different in differing parts of the world. Hope that helps.

Answer 9

For the same reason you don't hear the radio waves from a radio station unless you have a device to detect them.
Your eyes are the detector for light waves, so you see them when they hit your retina, either directly from the light source or reflected by any object.
You can't see the light unless you look directly to the source or some object is reflecting it towards your eyes. If there is no matter to reflect the light you see total darkness.

Answer 10

it is not, put a reflective object around the sun and can see, when you turn on a light in the dark in your room, you're actually seeing the reflection of light from objects around you, unless you're looking at the light source, say cheese!