: Why do they say the area around the sun is hotter than the surface itself, it doesn’t make any sense.

Question

How can the empty space around the sun be millions of degrees hot and the surface only thousands ? it doesn’t make any sense.

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Answer 1

The hottest point of a flame is not the bottom. The energy of the flame and the sun are not fully released until later in their cycle, not at the initial point of “combustion”.