Which direction would a flame go in the space station or far away from earth?

Question

Yes, there can be oxygen in outter space you just have to be in a cabin of some sort with air. I beleive it would go dirrectly away from the closest strongest gravitional pull

Answer 1

On earth a flame goes up because the hot air rises, being lighter than the colder air around it, and the draft of hot air going up creates a partial vacuum which cold (oxygenated) air rushes in to fill and to support combustion in its turn.

The space station in orbit, with no rockets firing, is in free fall. That means the match, the flame, and the surrounding air are in free fall, without any "up". If the cabin has no air currents then the flame would be a circular ball around the tip and would go out quickly once it used up the oxygen immediately around it.

Answer 2

Since there is no apparent gravity in an orbiting spacecraft, the usual notion of hot air rising is not applicable. A flame will tend toward whichever direction that the ventilation system is moving the air.

Answer 3

I have seen an experiment doing just this. A flame in space or zero gavity is round and has a hard time staying lit because there is no convection to keep feeding the flame with oxygen.

Answer 4

If you were in microgravity it would just go out in all directions equally.