Submitted by ArmchairSpinDoctor t3_z0z4ng in askscience
_AlreadyTaken_ t1_ixb20tk wrote
Reply to comment by Stillcant in Just how dark is deep space? by ArmchairSpinDoctor
Once your eyes are fully adjusted a full moon is surprisingly bright. I've turned off my headlight and hiked by moonlight.
In deep space though the light reflected off an object would suffer from the inverse square rule so this faint light would quickly dissapear into the background.
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