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Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?

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The sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut because there is no atmosphere in the outer space -that can scatter the sunlight. As the sunlight is not scattered, no scattered Iight reach the eyes of the astronauts and the sky appears black to them.
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