midnight
Two hours later she was awake and drinking the coffee which he had prepared for her . Then she went on to the upper deck . To her astonishment she found , on one hand , day more brilliant than she had ever seen it before , and on the other hand darkness blacker than the blackest earthly night . On the right was an intensely brilliant orb , about half as large again as the full moon seen from the earth , shining with inconceivable brightness out of a sky black as midnight and thronged with stars . It was the Sun ; the Sun shining in the midst of airless Space . The tiny atmosphere enclosed in the glass-domed deck-space was lighted brilliantly , but it was not perceptibly warmer , though Redgrave warned her not to touch anything upon which the sun 's rays fell directly , as she might find it uncomfortably hot . On the other side was the same black immensity which she had seen the night before , an ocean of darkness clustered with islands of light .