How Cold Is Space Near Earth

If atoms come to a complete stop they are at absolute zero.
How cold is space near earth. There the universe has it s background radiation which is 2 725 degrees kelvin. The most empty space which still not empty is the inter galactic space and only in some situations also. Eventually its oceans would boil. Let s look close to home in orbit around the planet at the international space station.
The earth could not shed the tremendous amount of heat it receives from the sun. A measure of how wiggly atoms are. And now this is actually very related to why mountains are cold. The average temperature of outer space near earth is 283 32 kelvins 10 17 degrees celsius or 50 3 degrees fahrenheit.
This is still very cold but nowhere near as cold as somewhere in deep space far from any sunlight. Temperatures can get up to 2 700 degrees f 1 500 c at this altitude. In fact if space were not this cold we d all be in deep trouble. In near earth it also depends if you put a piece of metal under direct sun light can reach 260 celsuis.
The thermosphere is considered part of earth s atmosphere but air density is so low that most of this layer is what is. Space is just above that at an average temperature of 2 7 kelvin about minus 455 degrees fahrenheit. The sparse pockets of space that. But to give some context you first need to understand heat as scientists do.
In empty interstellar space the temperature is just 3 kelvins not much above absolute zero which is the coldest anything can ever get. Closer to earth such as just outside of pluto s orbit the temperature is estimated to be closer to 35 or 40 kelvin due to the effects of the distant sun. A piece of bare metal in space under constant sunlight can get as hot as two hundred sixty 260. The temperature of things on earth is sort of in balance between the amount of heat which is arriving either from the sun or from heat moving around the world and the amount of heat it can lose by radiating into space.
Hot things move quickly cold things very slowly.