{"639772":{"#nid":"639772","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Weirdly Nihilistic Reason Why Outer Space Is So Cold","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFar outside our solar system and out past the distant reachers of our galaxy\u0026mdash;in the vast nothingness of space\u0026mdash;the distance between gas and dust particles grows, limiting their ability to transfer heat. There\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Emay\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;be pockets of the universe where temperatures drop to 1 Kelvin above absolute zero, astronomer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/james-sowell\u0022\u003EJim Sowell\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;notes, but so far, the closest measurement to absolute zero has only been observed in laboratories here on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-09-30 19:44:26","changed_gmt":"2020-09-30 19:44:26","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"campus construcation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/deep-space\/a29895696\/how-cold-is-space\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4188","name":"astronomy"},{"id":"167146","name":"space"},{"id":"7510","name":"temperature"},{"id":"167309","name":"solar system"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}