[ELI5] Would something stay hot in the space forever since there is nothing to transfer its heat?
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Not forever, but objects in space can have an issue of being slow to lose heat.
e.g. spacestations have to be carefully designed to radiate enough of the heat that they generate to not cook their inhabitants.
So, there is something to your intution of objects in space being able to stay hot, but nowhere near the “forever” you guessed.
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