• Question: Why is the space so cold ?

    Asked by russel1234 to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 21 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      This is because there’s nothing to store the heat. On Earth we have gases in the air and our atmosphere which store heat, as do the land and oceans. But in space there is no stuff of any kind to store the heat, because space is a vacuum. Therefore it’s always cold.

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