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
It’s mostly empty space, so since there is nothing to hold or carry the heat, it can’t heat up.
there is nothing to heat in space it is a vacuum. there has to be something for the energy from the sun to warm
Because there’s nothing in between the Earth and Sun to be heated. Temperature is a feature of matter, but space is empty so there is no matter to be hit by photons from the sun to be warmed.
Imagine I throw a rock. Now, if your face does not get in the way, the rock just keeps going. If you get you face in the way though, you will feel the rock.
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