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chorsestudios • today at 3:37 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

no, the vacuum of space does not emit heat


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antonvs • today at 7:58 AM

Interstellar space behaves as an almost perfect blackbody radiator, at a temperature of 2.725 Kelvin, due to the cosmic microwave background. As such, it does "emit heat", albeit an extremely small, but measurable amount.