Would the atmosphere cease to exist?

  • Xoriff@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Side question. I always thought that it was colder in deep space than anywhere near a star. What about earth causes things to naturally (not talking artificial stuff like freezers) get cooler than places in space that have no heat source?

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      1 year ago

      Naturally occurring? Yeah space wins. But artificially? The hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded were here on Earth in a lab. Here’s a cool infographic about it. The TLDR of which is the coldest temperature was -273 °C and the hottest (currently – the early universe was hotter) was 5.5 trillion °C both on Earth.