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How does one calculate the temperature of the space surrounding a
stellar body at a certain distance from it? I was just using an inverse square relationship between temperature and distance, but that comes up with non-sense results. Let's take the Earth and Sun as an example. If the Sun's surface temperature is 9000K, and its radius is 700,000 km, and the Earth is 1 AU (1.5E+8 km) away from the Sun. At that distance using an inverse square relationship, I get 0.2K as the answer. Obviously the Earth is much warmer than that. What's the real way to obtain temperature here? Yousuf Khan |
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