• Question: @Andrew how close to the sun do you need to be for you to get burnt

    Asked by archie brown to Andrew on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I have very fair skin, so I get burnt here on Earth!

      I suspect you mean ‘catch fire’ – well, that would need oxygen… and there’s not a lot of that in space.

      In fact, our atmosphere gives us a huge amount of protection; on the International Space Station they need to have protection from the sun’s light as without the proper insulation the space station would be heated to destruction in the sun’s light!

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