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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Yes, you have the right idea.
In this case “temperature” requires physical matter to be there to feel it; the space between the Earth and the Sun is “cold” because there is nothing there to be warmed. It’s sort of a if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound type riddle.
But if say, you, were floating in this space receiving the sun’s light you’d be very hot indeed. For example, the parts of the International Space Station that are lit by the Sun are roughly 250F. As you approached the sun it would get warmer and warmer until you burned to a crisp and back to “cold” again.
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