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?
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At the same temperature hot steel feels warmer than hot water, and hot water feels warmer than hot air. You can stay in hot air for a long time, but touch a metal with the same temperature and you instantly feel pain.
That’s because temperature requires molecules and the more there are the more you feel it. Space is mostly empty so there’s not much to heat up.
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