How/why is space between the sun and the earth so cold, when we can feel heat coming from the sun?

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How/why is space between the sun and the earth so cold, when we can feel heat coming from the sun?

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Because there is nothing in between to heat up. Radiation is not “hot” it has not a temperature. Radiation hits matter, absorbs it, matter heats up, radiates heat away again.

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