[ELI5] Would something stay hot in the space forever since there is nothing to transfer its heat?

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[ELI5] Would something stay hot in the space forever since there is nothing to transfer its heat?

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As an illustration to support the stuff other people are saying here:

If heat couldn’t travel through vacuum, we wouldn’t get any heat from the sun would we?

The same mechanism that allows the heat and light from the sun to get to the earth and heat it up works on anything else in space

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