How Cold Is Outer Space
That question is sure to prompt the geeks among us to pipe up with 2 7k.
How cold is outer space. Space is just above that at an average temperature of 2 7 kelvin about minus 455 degrees fahrenheit. How cold is it in space. Space is just above that at an average temperature of 2 7 kelvin about minus 455 degrees fahrenheit.
Far outside our solar system and out past the distant reachers of our galaxy in the vast nothingness of space the distance between gas and dust particles grows limiting their ability to transfer. However if you were to leave an object somewhere in deep space far from any stars planets or other bodies it will eventually come into thermal equilibrium with. It s the very diffuse.
The surface temperature of pluto can get as low as 240 celsius just 33 degrees above absolute zero. It can t move at all. But to give some context you first need to understand heat as scientists do.
Empty space has no temperature. But space is mostly full of well empty space. For 2 7 kelvin or 2 7 degrees above absolute zero is the temperature produced by the uniform.
As you travel away from the sun the temperature of an object in space plummets.