Why Is Space Black

Just the floating part not the peeing into a vacuum hose or eating.

Why is space black. The rest of the sky would be a soothing black decorated with tiny little less burny points of light. The surrounded space appears black because there isn t a strong enough atmosphere to cause the scattering. The seemingly endless black of space can feel isolating but remember that what you can see with the naked eye is only an infinitesimal fraction of the stars and galaxies that lie in the far reaches of outer space. Even so the vast majority of space is a vacuum bereft of any object that would generate visible light for us to witness.

If you were on the moon which has no atmosphere the sky would be black both night and day. Imagine you re in space. The rest of the sky would be a soothing black decorated with tiny little less burny points of light. The light from the stars at the furthest end of the galaxy those that are the farthest away from earth will take longer to reach our eyes than those that are closer to the earth.

If you ve done your homework you know that space is huge. Space is full of light energy on a spectrum from high energy gamma rays to low energy radio waves says mark hammergren an astronomer at chicago s. It even be infinite which is.