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

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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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The empty space around the Sun isn’t completely empty, it has some particles in it, which happen to be extremely hot. However, since there are so few of them, they don’t effectively transfer temperature to anything. The same happens on Earth – exosphere, starting at an altitude of about 500 km, is extremely hot, at several thousand degrees.

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