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Earth's atmospheric temperature is not what this person is talking about. The temperature outside your door depends on the sun, sure, but it's due to Earth's atmosphere. Go 60 miles towards "up" and the temperature of space is not the 68 degrees it is on the ground.
I think OP is questioning the temperature of the vacuum of space near the Sun. It doesn't really work like that though.
I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure temperature is the energy given to the molecules in the air by the radiation from the sun. Since there is no air in space to excite, it's just really cold until it's not.
The photons would directly excite the molecules in your body.
Which is why space suits are white. If they were darker, you‘d get cooked on a space walk. In a vacuum, the sunlight can heat you up but it’s much harder to radiate heat away.
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