Does the sun give light to the whole solar system?


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Also, does it go out of the solar system?

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yes and yes... look up in the night sky... all those stars are actually suns from other solar systems
yes, it is. But for some planer which more further from sun may not be absorbed its shining
yes and yes, we also recieve light from other solar systems, just not nearly as much... (stars are sources of light)
Yes. and with out it , there would be NO LIFE.
light travels out of the solar system only if someone leaves the windows open... Just kidding. Actually solar means sun, so solar system is the system of planets and such that orbit our sun. Many stars you see at night have solar systems as well so the light we see from other stars at night looks much like the light from our own sun as seen from distant solar systems. And yes, our sun provides light for our entire solar system.
Yes And Yes But It doesn't Light The Whole Milkey Way
Yes, by definition, our sun provides light to our solar system.
That is a perspective
Yes, it does for both questions.
Of course it does, the light from stars is really light from suns in other solar systems -- so we can see sunlight as old as fourteen billion years old at the extreme edge. (Sunlight is being sent from stars even further away than that, but since Hubble expansion of the Universe causes space to expand at the speed of light 14,000,000,000 light years away we will never see it.)

Of course, as you get further away from any light source the intensity of light drops (by the square of the distance) so, while the Sun is visible from Pluto and Sedna, the intensity of the light is basically negligible so those places are perpetually dark and very, very cold -- about 50 degrees above absolute zero.
It's light can be seen all the way from Pluto (planet or not), but Pluto doesn't get light at the strength we do from the sun. From Pluto the sun would appear much smaller. Pluto is about 30 times further from the sun than Earth.
Yes, it does light the entire solar system. However, as you go farther away, the light seems fainter. The sun looks a lot larger on Mercury than on Earth. The light does escape from the solar system, hence the fact that we can see light from other stars/solar systems.
yes
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