If the Sun is able to keep Earth warm while being millions of miles away, shouldn’t it get warmer and warmer the closer you get to it (like when you go to space)? Like how it would get warmer if you were to approach a burning house for example?
In: Planetary Science
Heat is molecules getting energy and bouncing around more. Space doesn’t have (many) molecules. There is nothing to bounce around. Therefore it cannot “heat up” the same way Earth can heat up.
Funny enough, if you put a thermometer in space in direct sunlight it WILL heat up and you may think space is hot.
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