I was thinking, as both a solution to the ambient lighting problem, an interesting new feature, and helping newbies get around. Various vision modes. Here's a little list.

Heat Vision: Show's thing that are hot, obviously. (Not including asteroids that are un heated)

X-Ray Vision: See through asteroids? Perhaps useful, perhaps not. Maybe also make wormhole locations more obvious.

Radar Vision: Use radar pulses to see asteroids and other ships.

Advanced Radar Vision: Perhaps shows ships as little flashing blips over distances greater than 3000 meters, otherwise would do the same as radar vision.

Ion field Vision: Show trails of where other ships have flown recently, thus allowing tracking. May also reveil quardinates jumped to.

Any others are up to your imagination! I've no idea how hard these would be to add, but its worth suggesting none the less. And after all the work they did to put into the new UI, and (hopefully) player owned and flown capital ships, these seems like a speck of dust on a massive list.

i like the ion field vision, but the others seem unessesary/usless imo

I like the idea of sensors in other wavelengths of light.

Many things could be revealed in one frame that aren't revealed in others. But, flying with Radar on could entirely obscure most objects, you would, in general only see radar emitters and large objects.

I do like the Ion Field and Heat Vision (very useful for miners... And maybe also for those hunting them. See that miner? He's right over next to the glowing rock).

The radar pulse vision, while perhaps being somewhat useless, could look incredibly cool...

Nice suggestion LoB. It would be great if these could be bought as add-ons... having different types/classes of each vision.