Why is the area of space outside of Earth dark when part of the planet is daytime?

Question

Why is the area of space outside of Earth dark when part of the planet is daytime?

In: Physics

Answer 1

In the simplest of terms… You see things because light bounces off of it. In space there is nothing to bounce light of. So space looks dark not because there is no light the sun is still inundating the place with a lot of light. But there is nothing to bounce the light of so you see nothing and hence it looks dark.