If incandescent lightbulbs have a vacuum inside, why do they get so hot on the outside? - eviltoast

Shouldn’t the vacuum insulate the glass from the heat of the burning filament?

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    1 year ago

    The vast majority of solar systems have significantly smaller suns with equally lame or lamer endings.

    That said, because the sun is slowly getting hotter over the ages the older it gets, the Earth’s oceans will have boiled off before the sun starts expanding.