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No; it really depends how far you are from a star. Or from some other object that emits light.
Anywhere that you are in space, you can see things that are directly illuminated by a light source. Light doesn't go around corners (without help!) so it is quite dark in all the shadowed areas. Areas of permanent shadow (such as deep craters near the south pole of the Moon) stay very dark and VERY cold. Here on Earth, our atmosphere diffuses the sunlight and scatters it in every direction, so it can be pretty bright bright even in "shadowed" areas.

In our own solar system, the primary light source is the Sun. If you are a long way from the Sun, then the sunlight is quite spread out and it won't provide a whole lot of illumination. You see, our human eyes evolved here on Earth, and we're accustomed to Earth-like levels of light; if it gets a lot darker, we wouldn't be able to see very much.

Far away from any star, the only available light will be the light you bring with you. This is one of the problems in searching for Trans-Neptunian Objects and Kiuper Belt objects; not only are they small and far away, but they're far enough away from the Sun that they don't get much light to begin with, and they reflect even less.

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