ELI5, Is there a sense of direction and space?

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Like if you were to leave Earth’s atmosphere and “float” next to it would you see the “floor” of space? Is it darkness? Would you see the stars down too.

How can you get oriented to direction? What’s north, south, east west?

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There’s no north, south, east, or west in space. Those are relative to Earth’s axis, so if you aren’t on Earth, there’s nothing to reference. You could create your own direction system relative to some object, like towards the sun and away from the sun. Someone else in space might come up with a different system, though.

There’s no floor or center to space. Any direction system you come up with would be arbitrary and relative to some object you pick.

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