{"id":247440,"date":"2026-11-15T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-reach-a-record-temperature-280-billion-times-colder-than-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-11-15T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T18:11:30","slug":"scientists-reach-a-record-temperature-280-billion-times-colder-than-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-reach-a-record-temperature-280-billion-times-colder-than-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reach a Record Temperature: 280 Billion Times Colder Than The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even the seemingly empty vacuum of space isn\u2019t completely cold.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe was born some 13.8 billion years ago in a state so hot and dense that the leftover radiation still permeates every one of its nooks and crannies.<\/p>\n<p>The average background temperature of space hovers around 2.7 kelvins \u2013 that\u2019s-270.45 degrees Celsius, or-454.81 Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the seemingly empty vacuum of space isn\u2019t completely cold. The Universe was born some 13.8 billion years ago in a state so hot and dense that the leftover radiation still permeates every one of its nooks and crannies. The average background temperature of space hovers around 2.7 kelvins \u2013 that\u2019s-270.45 degrees Celsius, or-454.81 Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}