How, at 93 million miles away, does the sun feel so warm, yet when a simple cloud passes over it the warmth is incredibly dampened?
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To add on to other point, this also shows why outer space has so little “stuff” in it to obstruct, reflect or absorb energy from the sun.
There are many more atoms of air between you and your computer screen than there are atoms between the sun and the earth (once you’re “outside” the sun and not yet “in” the earth’s atmosphere). There is just very very little stuff in outer space to reduce the sun’s energy. A cloud compared to outer space is like comparing how much water is in the ocean compared to how much there is in a cup of coffee.
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