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Hot & Cold In Space

Have you ever considered how cold or hot outer Space can be? Consider the following:

In space, it is very easy to be cold on your left and hot on your right. The sun on your right will only heat up your right side. Then your blood circulation would take that heat and try to spread it around your body. Meanwhile all your skin, even the side towards the sun, would be streaming out heat radiation in all the directions that are black.

If the sunlight you pick up has more watts than the heat radiation you emit, you get hotter. If less, you get colder. Until the two match and balance.

The earth picks up 1000 Watts per square meter on the sun side, but it is loosing 300 Watts/m2 of infra-red heat radiation all around. All told, it stays at about room temperature. You would too, if you were in "rotisserie-orbit" around the sun, and you
had the same lightness or darkness of color as the earth.
Ref. https://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00753.htm

Space Cold and Hot

For some reason I always figured it to be cold in space. But that line of thought doesn't make sense with what I already knew about space. Without rotation, the earth would essentially bake on one, be completely barren and unlivable hot. On the other side, it would be an unlivable ice planet. Planetary rotation is so much more important than most people even realize. Its not just responsible for our year and night/day, it is the entire reason the planet is inhabitable.

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Not exactly true. There is also the influence of the atmosphere that helps regulate the temperature. The atmosphere composition is the reason that Venus while our size and shape and roughly the same distance to the sun is dramatically hotter than the Earth. there is also the problem with defining hot/cold. In most cases space is considered cold because the mean difference between the particles is so large and there interaction is minimal. There is little to no convection or conduction of heat in space due to this. However, Radiant heat is transferred and is how we get our energy from the sun. You however would not be able to maintain "room temperature" unless you had some thermal blanket to help integrate the temperature around your body.

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