What colour is space?

If we add up all the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them), and from all the clouds of gas and dust in the Universe, we'd end up with a colour very close to white, but actually a little bit 'beige'.
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Is space clear or black?

Space Is Dark, But Scientists Have Found Unexplained Light : NPR. Space Is Dark, But Scientists Have Found Unexplained Light Scientists have used a NASA probe way out in space, beyond Pluto, to measure visible light that's not connected to any known source such as stars or galaxies.
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Is space actually colorful?

Galaxies are not actually as colorful as we think they are

Space emits a range of wavelengths of light, some we can see others we can't. The majority of emissions are of red and blue light which are easily visible to the human eye but there are also UV, X-rays and gamma rays which are invisible.
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Is space colorful or black and white?

That's easy. It's in black and white. You might not know this, but almost every photo of space starts out this way. Additionally, most telescopes only take black-and-white pictures, the most prominent of which probably being the Hubble Telescope.
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What color is space NASA?

At night, when that part of Earth is facing away from the Sun, space looks black because there is no nearby bright source of light, like the Sun, to be scattered.
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What does space smell like?

A succession of astronauts have described the smell as '… a rather pleasant metallic sensation ... [like] ... sweet-smelling welding fumes', 'burning metal', 'a distinct odour of ozone, an acrid smell', 'walnuts and brake pads', 'gunpowder' and even 'burnt almond cookie'.
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How dark is space?

How dark does space get? If you get away from city lights and look up, the sky between the stars appears very dark indeed. Above the Earth's atmosphere, outer space dims even further, fading to an inky pitch-black. And yet even there, space isn't absolutely black.
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What color is space blue?

The hexadecimal color code #003b59 is a dark shade of cyan-blue. In the RGB color model #003b59 is comprised of 0% red, 23.14% green and 34.9% blue.
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Why is space black?

Because space is a near-perfect vacuum — meaning it has exceedingly few particles — there's virtually nothing in the space between stars and planets to scatter light to our eyes. And with no light reaching the eyes, they see black.
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What color is the Universe?

In January, the true colour of the Universe was declared as somewhere between pale turquoise and aquamarine, by Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland.
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What color Is A Mirror?

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, meaning it reflects all light in a single direction equal to what it receives.
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What color is the galaxy?

Our galaxy is aptly named the Milky Way — it looks white, the color of fresh spring snow in the early morning, scientists now reveal. Color is a key detail of galaxies, shedding light on its history of star formation.
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Is the sky blue?

The sky is blue due to a phenomenon called Raleigh scattering. This scattering refers to the scattering of electromagnetic radiation (of which light is a form) by particles of a much smaller wavelength.
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Why Earth looks blue from space?

Seen from space, the Earth is blue. The Earth has been blue for over 4 billion years because of the liquid water on its surface. How has the Earth managed to sustain liquid water on its surface for such a long time? There is only one known planet with permanent bodies of liquid water at its surface: ours.
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Is it scary to be in space?

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, But That's Not The Scariest Thing About Being There. The infinite void of space is a vast, mostly unknown place that we're still researching and exploring. It is because of just how unknown it is that many find space to be a truly terrifying place.
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Is space hot or cold?

Hot things move quickly, cold things very slowly. If atoms come to a complete stop, they are at absolute zero. Space is just above that, at an average temperature of 2.7 Kelvin (about minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Why is there no sound in space?

The vacuum of outer space has essentially zero air. Because sound is just vibrating air, space has no air to vibrate and therefore no sound.
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What is space made of?

Outer space is not completely empty—it is a near perfect vacuum containing a low density of particles, predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, neutrinos, dust, and cosmic rays.
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What color is Earth from space?

From space, Earth looks like a blue marble with white swirls. Some parts are brown, yellow, green and white. The blue part is water. Water covers most of Earth.
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What is the true color of the sky?

As far as wavelengths go, Earth's sky really is a bluish violet. But because of our eyes we see it as pale blue.
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Can you fart in space?

The official verdict on gas in space: No burps, more farts, and no, you can't use your flatulence to propel you around the shuttle.
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Do we age in space?

In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
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Is space completely silent?

OK so wait, is space completely silent or not? While space is more silent than you could ever imagine, it's not completely devoid of sound. Sound waves cannot travel through space, but there are some infinitesimally small regions where sound can exist, under very specific conditions.
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