: 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

I don’t know, but it makes sense. My body temp is 98.6, but according to my wife, when in bed at night, the area directly adjacent to my skin is 40000⁰