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mlhpdx ◴[] No.44357730[source]
It’s very odd to think of something extremely hot but with almost no density, and therefore very little heat transfer.
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1. pseudosavant ◴[] No.44358932[source]
I thought the same thing too. It is very hot, without having very much heat - in a way.

The Parker Solar probe encounters a similar situation where it has to handle high amounts of direct radiation, but the latent/ambient environment is full of incredibly hot particles at very low density (because they are so hot) which means it isn't that hard to make the probe survive it.