reallyreallyreallytrying on Tumblr "everyone knows that space is very cold, and the sun is very very hot. so i assume there's a bit of space kind of near the sun which is just right. balmy space". porcupine-girl replies "Yes, that's. That's where we are."
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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

The thing about temperature is that it's not instant. Radiation from the sun heats stuff up, and that heat is absorbed by whatever the radiation hits according to its reflectivity and shape, and then lost from conduction, convection, and radiation. The characteristics of what's being heated by the sun and the environment it's in are what determine how hot it gets.

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