– Space is a vacuum with zero atmosphere, so heat does not transfer well. Could we get really close to the sun because of that?

Question

– Space is a vacuum with zero atmosphere, so heat does not transfer well. Could we get really close to the sun because of that?

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Answer 1

There is no conduction of heat in space, you can only shed heat by radiation. A piece of hot metal is putting out infrared radiation; that kind of heat transfer works fine in space

The sun is blasting out TONS of heat in the form of infrared, and if you go near the sun you would absorb a lot of this radiant heat energy but going to have a very hard time expelling that heat