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NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

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246 points world2vec | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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mlhpdx ◴[23 Jun 25 16:58 UTC] 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. philipov ◴[24 Jun 25 14:36 UTC] No.44366738[source]▶
It's one of the reasons I love Oxygen Not Included so much. That game's materials have both Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat as stats, and density plays into it as well.