The light is still there, but it does not scatter into blue sky like it does with Earth's atmosphere. That's why the sky looks black in outer space. But if you held up a piece of paper, it would be illuminated very brightly in the sun. The atmosphere refracts the light and scatters it all around the sky.
Essentially, in the vacuum of space, there is very little matter to reflect the sunlight radiated out through the solar system. A good example is a comet passing through the inner solar system. Gas and particles are thrown off the comet's head and form its wide "tail", which is then very brightly illuminated.
The Earth is bright only where the Sun is shining on it. Midnight on a moonless night you will see that it is fairly dark.
There are hundreds of billions of suns just in the Milky Way, but they are all VERY far away - and there are clouds of gas and dust that block the light of most the suns in our galaxy. Did I mention that they are very far away? That's why the night sky - even with all those stars - is still pretty dark
Objects in space either emit light (like stars) or reflect it (like planetary surfaces). Space itself does not emit light--not counting the 3K cosmic background radiation which permeates the universe. Therefore space itself is dark.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Consider this: If you are twice as far from a star you only get a quarter as much light from it. Light, like gravity, decreases as the reciprocal of the square of the distance.
The nearest star to Earth, aside from the sun, is about 206000 times further away. This means its we get one part in 42 400 000 000 of its light! All other stars are even further away.
Comment: This question is quite a famous one known as Olbers' Paradox. The explanation is still somewhat controversial amongst astronomers . The usual explanation is given in terms of the finite time that the universe has existed and the expansion of the universe, combined with the finite speed of light. If there were infinitely many stars randomly distributed, eventually any point in space away from us should intersect with the path of a star, and the entire sky would be light. Therefore, there are NOT infinitely many stars randomly distributed. There could still be infinitely many stars all lined up behind the stars we can see--but Olber considered that possibility highly unlikely.
You have billions of stars in the space. But they are placed far away from each other. You can see their faint images, when they are far away. There are two reasons for the same. One is that stars looks smaller, when they are far away. Secondly, the light is reflected back by the cosmic dust, making stars invisible. When enough light does not enter your eyes, the stars become almost invisible. Also that, you are not supposed to see the light, which is travelling in the space. Light itself, is invisible. So you see most of the space as dark back ground and see very few stars and not the billions of them.
earth has a sun nearby and space is too big to be lit by suns
It depends if light can travel in it or not. If not, then it will be dark and nothing can go in. If so, then it will look like space, or its surroundings, however bright or dark they are.
Moon
central maximum is double the with of any other fringe. all other fringes(dark and bright) are of the same width.
It's bright during most of the show ... although they do dim it somewhat during the trapeze lady ... and then it's dark after the audience is gone.
If by "heaven" you mean outer space, it is made up of the same 90 elements or so that are found on Earth. However, in outer space there is also matter that is not made up of atoms - including black holes, dark matter, and dark energy.If by "heaven" you mean a metaphysical heaven, as in what expects us in the afterlife - well, nobody really knows.
Because space is so dark.
When you observe the moon from Earth you see the side that is illuminated by the sun, whereas if you observe it from space you see the opposite side, which does not receive any light from the sun.
Because they are very bright in the dark night sky.
It depends if light can travel in it or not. If not, then it will be dark and nothing can go in. If so, then it will look like space, or its surroundings, however bright or dark they are.
The phase of the moon that appears completely dark when observed from Earth is the new moon. When it is completely bright, it is the full moon.
When you look at the moon, the light you are seeing is actually only reflected off the surface of the moon from the sun. The moon appears to be very bright when we look at it from earth, because relative to the dark void of space around it is extremely bright. When you stand on it there will still be an amount of light arriving from the sun.
Moon
The moon is a sphere about one- seventh of the earth's size. It has dark spots and bright spots and craters.
An antonym for bright is dark.
Dark, but with a bright look.
The Esperanto words for dark and bright are malhela and brila.
They might think about Earth boiling when they're suits rupture on the DARK side of the moon because it can get to below zero there. If they think about it when they're on the BRIGHT side then i dont know. Please DISCUSS this with me and other people.They will die