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Its fairly bright. Imagine a moonless night, clear air with all of the stars seen. That can be fairly bright. Living in the rural areas as a kid I recall being able to see pretty clearly where the road was as I walked home, at night, before the moon rose on a clear day.
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It's dark and transparent. "Black" is the name of a pigment, that which absorbs all colors of light, and space doesn't absorb anything--light passes right through it. Nor is it bright. It takes air and dust in the air to scatter light in all directions so that a day seems bright. When you are looking at a night sky you are seeing outer space--dark wherever there are no stars, assuming you're far enough from a city that the sky isn't light all night. If I can add an interesting remark, I was once lost after midnight in North Dakota in a clear winter night. I got out of the car to look for the Big Dipper and figure out which way was north and there were so many more stars visible than usual, because it was so dark, that I couldn't find it!
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It looks black to us, there is a void of light, but, it is not shiny. It is a huge mass of nothingness. Mostly clear.
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