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The atmosphere has stuff to do with gas. If the temperature was low enough though, would the gas fall down as liquid? (kbin.social)
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Would the atmosphere cease to exist?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Side question. I always thought that it was colder in deep space than anywhere near a star. What about earth causes things to naturally (not talking artificial stuff like freezers) get cooler than places in space that have no heat source?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Naturally occurring? Yeah space wins. But artificially? The hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded were here on Earth in a lab. Here's a cool infographic about it. The TLDR of which is the coldest temperature was -273 °C and the hottest (currently -- the early universe was hotter) was 5.5 trillion °C both on Earth.