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What's the temperature of outer space and why?
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I'm curious about this.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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It will vary, in extreams. Depending on how close to the sun (or other star) you are. Or if there is a large object (a planet, moon, etc.) directly between you and said star. In the shadow of an object or just far away from a star, it will be very, very cold. Nearer a star it becomes quite hot.


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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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cold, real cold. except next to our sun.
cause it's a vacuum.
short answer too lazy to.....

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: gdman]
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Hmm, what about in the huge spaces between everything?

Marijuana makes me think there has to be some common temperature in space.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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Depends on where. Clearly the vast majority of outer space is vacuum. In a vacuum, there is no such thing as temperature. Temperature is a measure of kinetic molecular energy, but in a vacuum, there are no molecules, and since there aren't any molecules, there cannot be a temperature. However, planetary and celestial bodies aside, there are gases in outer space, and they can range in temperature from 2K to millions of degrees K.

An interesting question would be what temperature is a black hole.


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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: zerozero]
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Only smarties have the answer  :shrug:


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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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Ok, I think I undestand you question but I dont have an answer. Umm, check the Kelvin scale. There is an exact temp for complete lack of energy using the Kelvin scale. Complete lack energy meaning no motion, no radiation, pretty much a nothingless, motionless state.

Im not a scientist and thats pretty much the extent of my scientific knowledge concerning the subject.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: dblaney]
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dblaney18 said:
Depends on where. Clearly the vast majority of outer space is vacuum. In a vacuum, there is no such thing as temperature. Temperature is a measure of kinetic molecular energy, but in a vacuum, there are no molecules, and since there aren't any molecules, there cannot be a temperature. However, planetary and celestial bodies aside, there are gases in outer space, and they can range in temperature from 2K to millions of degrees K.

An interesting question would be what temperature is a black hole.


I knew there was an answer.

So, there is no temperature in a vacuum? How does that work?

How can you even travel in a vacuum?

P.S. The temperature of a black hole is fucking hot.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: shallow]
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What you're thinking of is absolute zero (0K). However that doesn't apply to most of outer space, because there are no molecules there in the first place.


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: dblaney]
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Temperature is a measure of kinetic molecular energy, but in a vacuum, there are no molecules, and since there aren't any molecules, there cannot be a temperature.

So... if Nasa built a thermometer and tossed it into the vacuum of space... What exactly would the thermometer indicate?



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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: SkorpivoMusterion]
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That's what I want to know.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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I've read an article about this very thing some years ago. I can't give you an exact figure, but I recall the average temperature in space is somewhere close to absolute zero (About -460 degrees fahrenheit) for the reasons listed above, that is, that most of the universe is simply space....

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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TheHateCamel said:
So, there is no temperature in a vacuum? How does that work?

How can you even travel in a vacuum?

P.S. The temperature of a black hole is fucking hot.


A vacuum is a strange thing to comprehend. It is simply nothingness.

Rockets are able to travel in space, because the shells are able to withstand enormous amounts of pressure. Their engines are very powerful, and Newton's third law really goes into this more. Gases are expelled from the engines with enormous momentum; since there is a conservation of momentum, the rocket must move forward.

I wonder where black holes go, if anywhere?


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: SkorpivoMusterion]
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If you put a thermometer in the blackness of space between the stars, where there's very little gas or light, the temperature shown would drop very low. This is because the thermometer would be emiting more energy through radiation than it would be absorbing. If the thermometer was wet, or if there was some way for molecules to escape from the surface of the thermometer, it would drop more quickly, because these molecules would take energy with them.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: SkorpivoMusterion]
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SkorpivoMusterion said:
So... if Nasa built a thermometer and tossed it into the vacuum of space... What exactly would the thermometer indicate?



Nothing, it would probably implode or explode.


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: dblaney]
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Yes, the laws of motion and inertia still apply in a vacuum....

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: dblaney]
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If the thermometer was designed to withstand the rigors of space, it wouldn't necessarily explode.

The internal pressure would exceed the external pressure, but if the container was strong enough, the thermometer would still work.

It would read a very small number, because the thermometer would be emitting IR radiation, but getting very little energy in return.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel]
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this guy says+120degrees C to -100 degrees C. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/MimiZheng.shtml
things like our space craft, when we had them, could travel through space because the were pressurized, one pin hole tare, and pressure death.
rocks and chunks of planets can be in a vacuum cause there is no splat-able organics.

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: zerozero]
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Shouldn't there be ridiculous amounts of dust/tiny rocks flying through space?

Why wouldn't they rip right through a spacecraft?

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Re: What's the temperature of outer space and why? [Re: TheHateCamel] * 1
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they do.
yet another reason space exploration is really further down the road than one would like.
one little uncharted rock could wreck something.

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