If getting closer to the sun means it’s gets hotter, would there be a point in space where temperatures would be earthlike?
In: Planetary Science
“kind of”
Temperature is a property of matter.. If there is vacuum there, then you can’t have temperature, because there is nothing there to be vibrating.
But there is a band where the temperatures of matter there would be in the earth like range. This is called the “Goldilocks zone”, because it’s not too hot, and not too cold.
There are goldilocks zones for planets (which is where we look to find potential life sources), but a lesser known, and much narrower one for matter as well. A rock orbiting the sun there would eventually normalize to earth like temperatures, because the radiation being absorbed from the sun and the dissipation of heat through radiation would equalize to the temperature band you’re talking about..
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