How far into space till it gets dark????

Question

How far into space till it gets dark????

Answer 1

Even if you're nowhere near a star like our Sun, you'll still have distant stars, nebulae and other things shining in the distance. It's never completely dark in space.

Answer 2

dont know

probably never

Answer 3

Its dark right now ur only seeing light from the sun being scattered through the earths atomsphere, if you mean total darkness that will never happen there will always be light somewhere and not just the light you can see with your eyes.

Answer 4

I know what you mean.  Basically, the atmosphere smoothly thins out as you get higher.  You can begin to see it even only a few miles up.  But the point where the atmosphere thins out enough that it looks dark around you (but not under you) is around 100 miles (that's where space technically begins, although that's a somewhat arbitrary point that the government settled on).

Answer 5

Never.  The whole universe is filled with light.  Even if you were 156 billion light years away from Earth, you could still see galaxies around you.  The light would be dim, but it would still be there.

Answer 6

Pilots start talking about the sky getting dark something over 75,000 feet - about 15 miles up.  So, a telescope mounted on a high altitude balloon can do daytime astronomy and see things other than the Sun, moon, planets and a few brighter stars.

NASA says you're an astronaut if you make it to 100 km - about 62 miles.  It's arbitrary.  I'd say you're an astronaut if you've been to space OR have done the training.

That said, i'd much rather do the training to ride a barrel over the Niagara Falls than actually ride a barrel over the Niagara Falls.