Re: Detection sources

> On 15-Apr-00 at 19:21, Brian Quirt (baqrt@mta.ca) wrote:
>
> > The background is MUCH
> > cooler (a random patch of sky is probably going to be within
shouting
> > distance of absolute zero)
>
> This is one I would like verified by someone knowledgeble about
astronomy,
> just because a gas is thin doesn't mean the temperature is low.
>
> Roger

I was looking around the internet, trying to find some kind of
information
on detecting objects in space and ran across this link, which puts it
about
2.73 K or around -270 C.

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11121.html

The site in general has all kinds of neat information.

Christopher K Smith
SR MECH Auburn University
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