Why is Space between the earth and the sun cold?

It's not.

air conditioning.

The higher up you fly the colder it gets.

Even when you're flying during the day time.

Shouldn't it get hotter and hotter and hotter?

kmt

thats a good fycking question, i'm stumped

Because there's nothing to absorb or reflect the heat.

Space is nearly empty.

What's the square root of 69?

'Eh, ate-something.

sun radiates heat...there is nothing in open space
to heat....stand outside in the cold..let the sunshine
hit you and you feel heat...radiant heat....radiant
heat needs an object to hit to warm it...sorry this
is as simple as I know how to explain.

There can only be heat when matter is present to be heated. Space is a vacuum. No matter, no heat.

Vacuum

It's not cold. There's just no atmosphere to absorb and hold the heat, but you'll get frazzled by the radiation.

Unless you're on the opposite side of the earth, where it's dark and the radiation is blocked. Then you'll freeze.

Because space is a vacuum and there is nothing to heat up.

shhhhh...it's air conditioning...

Well this makes no sense at all, none whatsoever.

How then does the heat travel to reach the earth?

Surely the heat is still hot even though its traveling through empty space?

Why isn't this heat felt in Space?

this is kind of like that question if a tree falls down and no one is there does it make a sound?

this is kind of like that question if a tree falls down and no one is there does it make a sound?

Sorry but if you analyze what you wrote, you will realize that its completely unscientific.

How does the sun's heat travel to reach the earth?

The heat is still hot even though its traveling through empty space?

Why isn't this heat felt in Space?

takes me back to middle school....you will find your answer here

[link to coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu]

The heat is felt. That's why spaceships have air conditioning.

Thank-you for both your posts, but alas, they are empty of logic.

Think about what you wrote.

The sun's heat travels through Space to reach the earth, and even though its traveling through empty space, its heat is still hot to reach the earth.

This being said when a something (astronaut or spacecraft) is in Space between the earth and the sun that heat should be more intense.

If you don't know the answer do not be ashamed.

If it is cold, and I can't say for sure if this is true or not, then it is because it is not hot.

This is a good question OP.

Are you suggesting, with this line of questioning, that we've been fed a bunch of prevarications about what is up above?

Its not. The proof is found when flying higher up it gets colder. Even when you're flying during the day-time.

It should get hotter and hotter and hotter.

nothing to hold heat

nothing to reflect heat

nothing to transfer heat

It is more intense. Try standing out in it for a few minutes.

this

Thank-you, and yes, yes I am.

There are three ways to transfer heat: conduction, convection and radiation. The vacuum of space prevents conduction (which requires a solid or fluid) and convection (which requires a fluid). It does not prevent radiative heat transfer though. The Earth receives it's heat from the Sun by radiation, some of which is then transferred by conduction and convection to the atmosphere. The atmosphere also picks up heat directly from radiation. You can feel heat directly from the Sun on a sunny day.

Astronauts and spacecraft have a big problem with heat, since there is no atmosphere to disperse and absorb the sunlight. They bake in unfiltered solar radiation, at over 200°C. Then, in the shadow of the Earth or Moon, they freeze at below -150°C because there is no atmosphere to trap the heat. Once they are out of the sunlight, the temperature drops in seconds as the equipment radiates its heat away.

In theory, you would need to be infinitely far away from the sun to not feel any heat from it. In practice, you would need to be about 12 times the distance between the Earth and Sun to not notice the sun's heat. That's about 1.8 million kilometers, which is actually somewhere between Saturn and Uranus. So if you're at least as close to the Sun as Saturn is, you'll feel heat from it. If you're further out than Saturn, you've been abducted by aliens and solar heat is the least of your worries.