2007-03-01 00:26:24 · 12 answers · asked by sun_ahead 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The reason space is dark becasue there is no air and no atmosphere.
When you are on the earth you cannot look at the Sun because the atmosphere and the air and the dust particles in the air reflect the light and make it very intensive. The ligh that you see on the earth that brightens up everything around you, is not the direct sunlight but the reflected light. If u go in space and look at the sun, you will just see a bright red planet.
2007-03-01 00:33:23 · answer #1 · answered by atul c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To see something, the something must reflect light. There is nothing in space to reflect the sun light so we see black, except for our satelittes, asteroids and the planets. Even the most distant planet, in my book Pluto, is visable in the sunlight. In space if you look at the sun, you will see what we see here only no refraction from the air so all you see is a giant ball of fire. The pictures you see are usually from our satelittes so that is how the sun looks in space.
2007-03-01 09:09:43 · answer #2 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the light given out by the sun just go towards the darkness and never returned.
2007-03-01 10:17:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assume that you have a hall of 100m X 100m. And you fixed a 60 Watt tungsten filament bulb. Do you Think that light is enough.
In the same way light from the sun is not enough for whole galaxy. Even the 9th planet in our solar system is not receiving enough sun light
2007-03-01 08:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by Sathya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly you should understand how you actually see an object.In order to see an object,light from any source must fall on the object and the reflected light from that object should reach your eyes.If you take any one of the 3 namely,1-the Source,2-the object,or 3-the eyes,then the view is dark.Space is black because there is no object present there to reflect light that is produced by the sun and the other stars.Hope you understood.
2007-03-01 08:38:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ravindran. M 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Space is a vacuum, and neither reflects nor absorbs light. It just passes through space with no result. It is not until the light comes in contact with a reflective substance (planet, asteroid, comet, "space dust," or whatever) that it can be reflected or absorbed and create something you can see.
2007-03-01 10:24:10 · answer #6 · answered by LSF 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the light we see is due to reflection.. there is nothing in space for light to reflect off of, that's why it's all black..
2007-03-01 08:29:39 · answer #7 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its called dark matter, the universe is so vast you will find it very hard to grasp it... our galaxy is about 100 million miles across, in our galaxy there are approx 100 million suns, we will never escape our galaxy cos we would have to travel at the speed of light for 100 million years, now~! our universe holds in the region of about 500 million galaxys, you make the calculation!!!. about i think??? 70% of the matter in between these galaxies is dark matter so to answer your question, the suns are not big enough to share there light and there is to much dark matter for the light to penatrate. i thing lol. sound godd though, dosent it .
2007-03-01 09:00:02 · answer #8 · answered by joey h 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The space is a vacuum that's why
2007-03-01 08:31:14 · answer #9 · answered by Nelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
darkness is a relative term. its just darker than most of the stuff we see.
2007-03-01 09:00:19 · answer #10 · answered by Richard J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋