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
Yes and no. The relevant temperature to us isn’t determined just by the proximity to the sun, but also the makeup of Earth (which absorbs and radiates heat) and our atmosphere. Venus has hotter surface temperature than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the sun than Venus, because of what their respective atmospheres consist of. So yes, there is a circle around the sun in which the energy transferred by the sun to an object there would be the same as with Earth, but that’s not really the determinant of whether the place is suitable for human life.
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