If The Sun Is In Space Why Is It Dark

Light usually travels straight ahead in a line unless it reflects off of something or.

If the sun is in space why is it dark. Universe today has another explanation. Imagine you re in space. That question is not as simple as it may sound. If you looked at the sun it would be bright and your.

But what about all those other far away suns that appear as stars in the night sky. At night we see darkness because the light of the sun is gone. You might think that space appears dark at night because that is when our side of earth faces away from the sun as our planet rotates on its axis every 24 hours. Our sun is like many of the stars that we see at night.

If you re not a morning person then you d probably love living on the moon or out in space. Space is black to our perception because there are few molecules of matter that can reflect or scatter light like our atmosphere on earth. That s because although starlight gets fainter with distance a simple calculation shows the fading is cancelled out by the ever increasing numbers of stars with distance and should therefore leave space ablaze with light. Each one of the stars is a kind of sun in its own location.

So if the stars are all giving off light why is space so black. Just the floating part not the peeing into a vacuum hose or eating that funky ice cream from foil bags part. The whole lack of oxygen thing aside a round the clock night.