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Oh my god. If your hot thing is hotter than the atmosphere than the atmosphere takes heat away from your thing. This conduction heating is the majority of how things in atmosphere lose heat. They heat...

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So what happens to heat in the absence of an atmosphere?

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*sigh* There are two main ways that thing lose heat. They emit black body radiation, losing mostly infra-red photons that carry energy away with them, and by conduction when some other atom touches the thing and takes some energy away as it bounces off. In the vacuum you only get one of those thin...