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The baseline temp of outer space is 270 °C; −455 °F. Being 94 million miles away from the fusion reactor (not a bomb) does not change the fact that it is extremely cold because energy does't transfer in space. This is why, for example, all science fiction movies (which I enjoy anyway) are big lies - there is no sound, which means there will be no big explosions when you zap the bad guys with ray guns. Sound is not a light wave, it's more physical in nature and so it doesn't have a substance to travel through in empty space. Similar concept for energy transference.

A fairly realistic depiction of what space is like in the movies was the movie is the George Clooney movie, Gravity, which depicted soundless terror.

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Charles Bastille
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