eli5 – How is space cold?

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How is space “cold” when it’s a vacuum? Isn’t temperature transferred between mass? If anything, shouldn’t you overheat when in a vacuum, because your body generates heat?

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Why do you think they have to be mutually exclusive? Space is cold and also you would overheat.

You overheat because space can’t absorb and take that heat from you.

Space is cold because, well, it can’t absorb heat.

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