Can you see colors in space?

Answer 1

mostly black

The Universe doesn't really have a color or more correctly it is without color. But if you need an answer it would be 99.9999999% black

(please note this is viewed from the inside. Whilst impossible to view from the outside at present, some current thinking believes that from the outside, it is in fact Ducks egg blue)

Answer 2

No, in space there is no atmosphere to scatter light and create the colors we see on Earth. However, some objects in space emit light of certain colors, but astronauts typically see space as black with bright objects like stars.

Answer 3

The same way you would see colour on Earth, by the reception of light waves by your eyes.

I was taught that we see color because our atmosphere refracts light much like a prism breaks out each color from visible light. Since there is no atmosphere in space I don't understand how we see color.

Answer 4

The main colour of space is black. Obviously, as its really dark out there. however, there are stars, the sun, and other bright objects that provide light. Otherwise, it would be seriously dark and you won't see anything!

Answer 5

In the Universe - every single colour.

Probably a lot more that our eyes cannot see.

Actually, there are infinitely many "colors," since there are infinitely many possible frequencies of light... even if we're only talking about visible light, because that's how real numbers work.

However, in practice, most vision scientists say humans can only distinguish about ten million distinct colors. This doesn't mean that anyone can actually name them all (thought I'd better get that in before someone asked for a list), instead it means that if you tried to pick more colors than that somewhere in the set of ten million would be one that could not be distinguished visually from the one you just picked.

Answer 6

Yes. However, in most parts of "space" there's nothing to see, or there's not enough light to see by. We live on a planet fairly close to a star, so we have plenty of light - but beyond the orbit of, say, Saturn, there wouldn't really be enough sunlight to see stuff. So we'd need to provide our own artificial light.

Answer 7

No color at all; so, black. Things have "color" because they either generate their own light, like a star, or reflect the light from something else. Outer space is pretty much empty; if there is nothing to reflect the light, then that blank spot will appear black.

Answer 8

Some astronomers claim the color of the universe is close to white. Their best guess White D65. See related links for a detailed analysis of the color of the universe.

Answer 9

Outer space has no colour, but overall I would call it black, if your looking for an answer however that's aside from the stars (balls of gas) you see there.

Answer 10

Of course. Things look normal, as long as they have appropriate light

shining on them. Just exactly the way things work down here.