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To: Telepathic Intruder
Apparently it is absorbing x-rays and re-emitting them as black body radiation. The temperature is based on the wavelenth.

Are you saying that the heat does not really exist?

What could be generating that much X-ray radiation to cause that much heat? A Blackhole?

27 posted on 05/12/2008 8:41:34 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: Pontiac

Saying that it’s hot (a million degrees) is actually a little misleading. The material is so diffuse that the average temperature of space is really only a fraction of a degree. Interstellar emission nebulas do the same thing: they can absorb high-frequency radiation from nearby stars, which heats up the individual atoms proportionally to the wavelength, but the actual energy is small since there is only a few atoms in a cubic centimeter. Now with a star or planet, temperature is much more significant because there’s a lot of mass...


32 posted on 05/12/2008 9:00:56 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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