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If you were travelling in deep space between stars how dark would it be could you see an asteroid in your path or your hand with your arm outstretched?
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If you were traveling in deep space, it would be easy to see an asteroid in your path; use your radar to detect it, and then shine a light on it. There would be essentially no natural light, but if you don't have any artificial lights, then you probably don't have a habitat that will enable you to survive in deep space anyway. All spacesuits have lights. So the question would be moot; you would be dead and not able to see anyway.
If you were in a space suit with no lights in deep space, then during the (very brief) interval before you died you would not be able to actually see an asteroid, but you might be able to see the occultation of stars; if a star were to suddenly "disappear", you might reasonably assume that some dark object had come between you and the star.
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There is light in deep space. Just like on earth there is star light, but it would be darker than the darkest night seen on earth. Whether or not an asteroid would be visible depends entirely on what that asteroid is made of and how reflective it is.
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