Science, asked by Curiee, 1 year ago

Why is it dark between earth and the sun... how does light travel through darkness?

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Answered by zoref

Sun is the ultimate source of light. Darkness comes when light is blocked by an obstacle. In case of space, light gets blocked by various huge sized asteroids, other planets, start and comets. Not all of that light gets blocked. Only a small portion is blocked. Also there are black holes in space, which absorb huge amount of energy (including light energy)

Curiee: Blocking light only produces a Shadow which I don't think means darkness...n further there are not asteroids n comets all the way between earth n the sun or else only shadow would have reached to us...there are no obstacles in between that is clear(through satellite imaging) light's there but only appears on earth n not in the way..how?

Ratikanta2001: in space it is vacume so that the light is gone away and don't come back. You know that we seen objects by reflection of light from them, so in space light can reflect from the earth surface to space and we see it through our eyes or by setellite.

Curiee: Got that... nothing to reflect.... nothing to see!

Ratikanta2001: good

zoref: Yes youre right. i just read about it. updating the answer

Curiee: awesome!!

zoref: You can't actually see the light as it passes by, only when it bounces off something, but that's true everywhere. The only marked difference between being on Earth and in space when it comes to sunlight as that we have an atmosphere on Earth which reflects some sunlight and makes our sky blue during the day and orange at sunset. In space, or on any planet or moon that doesn't have an atmosphere, there's nothing for the sunlight to bounce off of so the sky is always black.

zoref: Thanks!

Curiee: Thanks!

Answered by Ratikanta2001

light doesn't not travel through darkness. The place from where light can not return that place become dark. So in space there is nothing for the light to reflect back so their is dark.

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