if the sun is in space then why is space black?
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Sunlight from the Sun would have to reflect off something in space in order for that region of space not to appear black.  For example the Moon doesn't look black because Sunlight is reflecting off its surface.\n\nSpace is for the most part black since there is an absence of material that can produce or relfect light there.
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Yes.  Black is the condition of no visible light reaching the eyes.  However, because 'colour' is an arbitrary way that humans identify the sensation of electromagnetic waves, the fact that 'black' can be sensed makes it a colour.  However, black can either be the absence of all light or the combination of many other colours.
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It's always daytime in space. Unless you are stuck behind a planet or a moon or something else, then it's dark as hell... The spining of the Earth creates day and night.
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Ultraviolet light. \n\nNot actually black, but beyond our visual spectrum hence its called black light.\n\nI hope that Helps\n\nAnhar Hussain Miah
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I can think of 2 possibilities.  One is when they use an occulting disk to block out the Sun (because it is so bright), so you see a black disk, and then you can see the space around the Sun.  They do that to look at the atmosphere around the Sun.  Take a look at the first link below.\n\nThe other possible answer is that the photographs are not taken in normal visible light but some other wavelength.  in the second link, there is a picture where the Sun's 'normal' surface looks dark.  The caption helps explain it.
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Because a "black hole" has a gravitational field so strong, light cannot escape.  Therefore, all we can see is that nothing is there, which appears like "blackness" to us, and since light "falls" into it, it's a "hole".\n\nThus, black hole.
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The heat and light in the sun is due to the vast amounts of energy produced at the core. At the core hdrogen atoms combine together to form Helium atoms due to the pressure (billions of atmospheres.) and temperature (15 million degrees C). This reaction is called fusion. \n\n  However the mass of the helium atoms produced is slightly less than the combining hydrogen atoms. This difference in the mass is coverted into energy according to einsteins equation E= mc2 (c is squared).\n  This energy is in the formed of gamma rays which reaches the earth. However what we look at is only the surface of the sun called the "photosphere" which is very much cooled than the core (just 6000 degrees).\n\nThe sun wont always be bright. Eventually as the hydrongen gets used up, the reaction will slow down and the sun will become a red giant and on further reduction will become a white dwarf and at the end it will be a black dwarf.
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white all light, colors are the rays absorbed when all othes don't, black is the absence of color, NO THERE IS NO COLOR.\nI took a painting class where the professor took awy the use of black because of that color theory, we had to make dark shades, given that we were painting something someone could see.
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It looks black.  When something absorbs all wavelengths of light t appears black.
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First off why is the sky any color at all and not black?\nThe answer -- the presence of the atmosphere -- oxygen molecules absorb energy and release at pretty much a random angle(Rayleigh scattering). So the light from the sun is "diffused" around the atmosphere and when it reaches our eyes it come in from all directions -- creating the colored sky effect.\n\nNow on to the 2nd question why is the sky specifically blue. Blue is high energy color(it is created by high frequency waves) so it does not spread as much as other colors. In fact the sky is not uniform blue -- Come out of your house on a clear sunny day and you will see that the sky is the bluest directly above your head but it gets more and more white as you look toward horizon. This means that blue light diffuses the least creating blue appearance around the sun -- but as you look further from the sun more colors are visible creating the white effect. \nThe Sky may also be seen in weird colors like red and orange when the sun is at the sharp angle with the atmosphere(dusk and dawn).
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The orange and red tints that the Sun and Moon sometimes take on are caused by the particles in the Earth's atmosphere. \n\nWhen light (or more specifically, packets of light called photons) from an astronomical object passes through the Earth's atmosphere, it scatters off of particles in the latter. It turns out that these particles like to scatter blue light more than they do red light; so "bluer" photons (those with shorter wavelengths) tend to get scattered, and "redder" photons (those with longer wavelengths) pass through. So, astronomical objects look redder from Earth than they would from space, because the redder wavelengths from the objects penetrate the atmosphere better than the bluer ones. Incidentally, this is why the sky is blue: blue light from the Sun is scattered in all directions on its way to the Earth. \n\nBut how does this explain the occasional redness of the Moon or the Sun? Your son may have noticed that they always occur when the Sun or Moon is close to the horizon. If you think about it, sunlight or moonlight must travel through the maximum amount of atmosphere to get to your eyes when the Sun or Moon is on the horizon (remember that that atmosphere is a sphere around the Earth). So, you expect *more* blue light to be scattered from Sunlight or Moonlight when the Sun or Moon is on the horizon than when it is, say, overhead; this makes the object look redder. In other words, the Sun or Moon tends to look orange or red when it is rising or setting because that's the time when the light has to travel through the most atmosphere to get to you. The effect is exacerbated when there are thin clouds in front or behind the Sun or Moon: the clouds themselves often glow bright pink as well, because they are so good at scattering blue light
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I would say that it is made up of hot low-density gas.  The assumption in the question is that there are no dark spectral lines.  That means that there is no "black body" radiation being transmitted through a cooler gas.  A hot, dense gas with strong molecular interaction would tend toward a more continuous spectrum; without dark lines there isn't a cooler gas surrounding it.
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there is no 'color' they are black. If u look through a telescope you will see the 'white' stars and then this giant lack of space (the black hole) and then back to stars
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it depends on your place in space. are you in a straight line with a planet and sun,  then there is night and vice versa
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The sun isn't burning. Fire is a chemical process, and it almost always involves oxygen (air), which isn't really common in space. Instead, the sun is exploding from nuclear fusion. All the fuel floats around the sun in an extremely hot plasma, kept near the core by gravity like our own air is kept near the earth. In the middle of the sun, all the plasma on top is pressing down so hard that hydrogen atoms fuse together into helium (and rarely some other stuff), causing a huge explosion and pushing everything back up and out, only to be drawn back in by their weight to do it again. Not all the hydrogen has been fused together yet (there's a heck of a lot of it there) but when it does the sun will collapse, but eventually it will squeeze everything so hard that even the helium will begin fusing together. I don't remember what happens after that, but eventually when the helium runs out the sun will collapse again, either becoming a much smaller white star that fuses something harder and heavier than hydrogen and helium or goes nova, exploding with a sudden combination all at once before gravity can pull it back together again. The sun's too small to become a black hole though, probably. We can estimate how hot the sun is on it's surface by seeing how hot it is way out here on earth, just like you can estimate that a fire in your fireplace is hot by holding your hand near it without having to actually touch it, and by using mathematical models of nuclear reactions.
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black is a colour!\nno colour would be clear, invisible. if that was the case you would then see a bubble of magnified/distorted/warped space stars behind it. but that's not the case.\n\nimagine seeing a black hole with your eyes. you would see stars everywhere except at the hole which would be black...colour.\n\nisn't black not the absence of colour but rather the accumulation of all colours?
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The sun is a giant ball of plasma constantly fusing hydrogen into helium.  It is not 'on fire', so to speak, so the lack of oxygen and the coldness of space don't effect it like a match or something.