why can't we see the light of the sun's rays at night?
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I see the point in your question.  I think you are asking why  do we not see an aura of light, since light would still be passing around us.\n\nLight is an electromagnetic wave (OK, some might say rightly that this is debatable since it sometimes displays properties more accustomed to matter.  However, this dual nature does not imply that light is not an electromagnetic wave).\n\nThat said, one must understand that the e-m wave in itself is invisible.  It is the retina in our eyes which is sensitive to these rays.  Imagine this example.  Light a torch in a dark and clean room (no dust flying about!).  You would see the paper, but you won't see the light travelling from the torch to paper!  That is unless dust, or humidity, reflect this light and you would see a beam of light.  Similarly if you take a magnifying glass, you can see the image, but can you see the light coming out of that image? No.\n\nSo, though light would be passing around us, since nothing, except of course the Moon, satellites, and planets would be reflecting it, we cannot see it!
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we dont see moonlight, the astronauts didnt see earthlight. what we and the astronauts saw was actually sunlight reflecting off of each (moon and earth). the moon gives off no light and all the lights on the earth would not make a very bright light if you were staring at the planet from the moon's surface.
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Light is cool stuff.It acts like radiation but when it hits something it act like a particle.You cant see light until it hits something and it releases its energy.So most of the light after you turn the switch off hits something and ceases to be but a very small amount might be lucky to shine out to open sky and even less might leave earth.It will keep going till it hits something all happening at the speed of light.Like looking at very distant stars ,its taken billions of years for the light to reach us.The star is long gone switched off but we are still seeing the light from it very diffused but what we see hasn't hit anything on its journey and it's an infinitely small amount of what originally left that star/sun
199224
They don't go anywhere, but are rather not visible to us because the sun's light is so bright that we cannot see their dim light.
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The plane is nearer to us. The light rays are diverging towards us.  Though the moon and meteor or are far away. They are extended source of light.  The moon’s rays are parallel. In this situation both lights from meteor and plane will not be visible to us in the bright Back ground of moon’s light.
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Also, we only see it when it is above the horizon.\n\nDuring the day, the sun is obviously above the horizon.  But the moon sets an hour or so later each day, so sometimes it is below the horizon in the day, and sometimes not.
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Because it does not pass between where you are and the moon, or between the sun and the moon (and if it did I would think it would be so small on such a bright field any shadow would be lost in the 'blur' and distance)
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Check out the graphic on this site: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/teachers/moonglow.html\n\nImagine yourself standing on the left side of the Earth away from the sun where it's, of course, night.  See how high the the moon is from the Earth?  The suns rays can still reach it, even though our ground is in darkness...  Hard to describe in words but just try to picture it...
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Possibly because you are colorblind and can not see the color blue.\n\nOr because you are blind and can not see.\n\nOr, how about because it is night time, and the increase of light from our sun isn't exciting particles of water to make the spectrum blue.  Instead, the absence of such light allows us to not see this type of distortion and see into space properly. \n\nOr, because the density of the clouds has reached a critical point and it is about to storm or rain.\n\nOr because you are weating sunglasses that distort your view.\n\nLOL this is a very subjective question witout the proper context.
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Its still a little bit dark and the light from earth when reflected back to the moon enables u 2 see the dark side of the moon but this will only happen when there is not enough light to block your view.
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It is Olbers' Paradox.\n\nWhy isn't the night sky as uniformly bright as the surface of the Sun?  If the Universe has infinitely many stars, then it should be.  After all, if you move the Sun twice as far away from us, we will intercept one quarter as many photons, but the Sun will subtend one quarter of the angular area.  So the areal intensity remains constant.  With infinitely many stars, every angular element of the sky should have a star, and the entire heavens should be as bright as the sun.  We should have the impression that we live in the center of a hollow black body whose temperature is about 6000 degrees Celsius.  This is Olbers' paradox.  It can be traced as far back as Kepler in 1610, and was rediscussed by Halley and Cheseaux in the eighteen century; but it was not popularized as a paradox until Olbers took up the issue in the nineteenth century.
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no it is a reflection of the suns light.  That is why you can still see the moon during the day soemtimes.  It is still getting light from the sun.
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yes u can see them .go far awy from city where there is vry less artificial light source n enjoy this event at dark night .u can see them moving as though a star is moving . satellite don't flicker.\n\nor see tht in film the octubar sky.
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All natural light sources generate a "spectrum" of frequencies that approaches the "black body" radiation curve. The peak of that curve denotes the temperature of the emitting object. Certain frequencies can be affected in transit via interaction with materials as in emission and reflection nebula (ie. various places within the Orion constellation). The sun emits UV radiation commensurate with its black body ideal.\n\nUNLESS someone can show that the moon absorbes ALL UV frequencies on reflection then by definition:\n\nMOONLIGHT DOES INDEED CONTAIN UV FREQUENCIES\n\n===============================================\nSome of you people amaze me, you answer questions that you know NOTHING about. Answers like "No because it is reflected light" are a case in point. Is your blue shirt invisible in the mirror because the light coming from your shirt is lost as it reflects off of the mirror. I THINK NOT! Reflected light IS LIGHT. Some of it is absorbed, reflected, refracted but it is light. YES; the UV portion in moonlight is very weak, hey guess what -ALL THE LIGHT frequencies in moonlight are weak; THATS WHY MOONLIGHT IS DIM.\n==============================\nUV is NOT produced only from objects above 24000 degrees. It is produced at ALL temperatures, but the lower the temperature the lower the amount of UV that is produced. PLEASE Google "black body radiation"
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Yes uv rays are still emitited through clouds. but not at night.
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because of the distance and variations of the surface temperature of the sun, plus the infrared spectrum within the sun, sun spots appear darker.Photvoltiac activity is contained within or under the suns surface, thereby hidden from our view, but detected via spectrum analyzers
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Only light within the visible spectrum (450 nanometres (nm) wavelength, to about 700nm wavelength). \n\nOther light (infra red and above / ultraviolet and below) is not visible.