Explanation The temperature of any medium of any portion is the measure of the average energy of all the particles present in the medium. The vacuum is considered to be the area of nothingness. Therefore, in absolute vacuum, there is no presence of any molecule or particle whose energy could be measured. The temperature of the vacuum can only be determined based on the amount of the incoming and the outgoing radiations from the bodies existing in space. Otherwise, there may not be absolute vacuum and some particles may be present in the medium whose kinetic energy could be measured in order to get the temperature of the vacuum...

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