Why sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut in space?

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The sky appears blue when viewed from Earth because of scattering of light particles I.e blue light gets refracted wherever there is atmosphere. As there is no atmosphere in space, astronauts see the actual colour of sky I.e black.
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Sky appears black to an astronaut because there is no atmosphere in space and so there are no particles to disperse light from the sun. because there is no atmosphere to scatter light in the space. Because the sky is blue to us by the light being scattered through nitrogen.
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Due to absence of scattering of light in space, the sky appears dark instead of blue.
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In space, there is no atmosphere, and so no light gets scattered at all. Because there is no scattering , they see the real color of the space which is black
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The sky appears blue from earth because the light from the sun gets scattered by the dust particles and water vapor present in the earth's atmosphere and among all the light rays of different wavelengths present in polychromatic sunlight, the blue light scatters the most. In outer space atmosphere is...
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The sky appears blue from earth because the light from the sun gets scattered by the dust particles and water vapor present in the earth's atmosphere and among all the light rays of different wavelengths present in polychromatic sunlight, the blue light scatters the most. In outer space atmosphere is absent and hence such scattering doesn't occur. Thus the outer space appears dark to an astronaut in space. read less
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As an astronaut movers far away from the earth atmosphere and-fly at very high altitude in the space the medium becomes rarer. Due to the absence of air molecules or find particles there is hardly any scattering of light that is why the sky appears dark to an astronaut flying at very high altitudes as...
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As an astronaut movers far away from the earth atmosphere and-fly at very high altitude in the space the medium becomes rarer. Due to the absence of air molecules or find particles there is hardly any scattering of light that is why the sky appears dark to an astronaut flying at very high altitudes as scattering of lights is not prominent at such heights read less
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Because there is no atmospheric refraction in space .
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least scattering of light
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because of no atmosphere in space
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because of absence of atmosphere,light is not reflected or scattered back to eyes,.when light doesnot come to eyes it looks dark
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