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EX500rider

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5. very cold

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:32 PM

22 hrs ago

Interstellar space is very cold, with an average temperature of 2.7 kelvins ((-454.8degree F) or (-270.4degree C)). This is only a few degrees above absolute zero, the temperature at which molecular motion stops.

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