if the sun is in space, why is there light on Earth but not in space?

Question

sos I do not understand at all

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Everything we see is because of reflected light. This is why when you turn a light on in the room the light bounces off of objects and hit our eyes in a specific way. This is why the moon and asteroids and anything else that’s big enough for us to see has light reflected off of it for us to see it, but in the general emptiness of space there’s nothing large enough for us to see so it is dark. This is why you can look up in the sky during the daytime with no clouds and all you see is light reflecting off of the atmosphere.