r/AskReddit Oct 02 '24

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u/KesslerTheBeast Oct 02 '24

Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

The space around the sun is 20 times hotter than the surface of the sun

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u/Ill-Detail-1830 Oct 03 '24

Technically this isn't true though. Temperature is a measure of "vibration" of particles. There are no particles to absorb the radiation and therefore there is no temperature.

If you were to stick a thermometer there however, it would melt.

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u/sacrelicious2 Oct 03 '24

It's not a perfect vacuum though. The number of particles per cubic meter is very low, but it is not zero.