On An Asteroid

Poul Anderson, The Stars Are Also Fire, 20.

Anderson presents a detailed description of the asteroid explored by Edmond Beynac. The description might be difficult to summarize interestingly here. However, we also receive yet another Andersonian description of the sky seen from space:

"Above loomed a dark that at night was crowded with constellations, glowingly cloven by the Milky Way, haunted by nebulae and sister galaxies. Then the sun tumbled aloft, shrunken to a point but still intolerably fierce, radiant more than five hundred times full Moonlight on Earth. The visible stars became few..." (p. 269)

There is much more, of course. Observations:

I would have thought that, that far from the sun, it was night all the time - however, the shrunken sun remains bright enough to make a difference;

that sister galaxies are not just other nebulae was not established until 1925. See here.