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Took a stab at some tweaks (gotta run, so might be kinda quick/rough) ... but the gist is that you can dial it in how you desire to present it.
The space outside our atmosphere will be black as it is not reflecting any light back to us. What we see of the blue sky/space is the sunlight (at varying angle of refraction for color / vector quantity of return for amount) refracting through our atmosphere @ AR (with R being refraction, rather than reflection) and similar to how light refracts through a prism to separate color, so does our atmosphere. This is predicated upon such angles as the earth rotates to yield the 360 degree gamut @ 0 - 180 bi-directionally.
While the earth can block the sunlight at a given angle to the sun, the atmosphere (far above), can still refract the light. The color of the light refracting through our atmosphere is different from the non-return (i.e. black) of space. If we want to illustrate the atmospheric color, it can be diff from true space color @ black (non-return of sunlight). The same can then apply to other light source(s) at the light passing through (refracting) or reflecting to yield varying color.
It really depends on whether you are wanting to show space color or atmospheric effect color ... either can be appropriate. Kinda like taking a picture "OF" a stained glass window, or taking a picture "THROUGH" a stained glass window as to whether the color is the subject or an alteration of the source illumination to be corrected for (with the atmosphere in perpetual cyclical/rotational variance).
The clouds are inside our atmospheric "window", and the space is outside ... if that makes any sense.
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