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Technically, NO.

A Temperature is defined as a quality of a quantity of Mass.

No Mass, No temperature.

The scientific explanation for this is that temperature is a measurement of the intensity of molecular movements, also known as molecular kinetic energy. For fluids the molecules move freely, and in solids the motion is confined to vibrations within a fixed matrix.

Consider a material at room temperature: If "heat" is applied the molecules of the material interact more intensely and we call this changed condition "hot" relative to it's original temperature. "Heat" i.e., transference of this energy, can take place by convection as in rubbing one's hands together so that external molecules bump into each other more intensely, or in the form of radiation like the sun's rays (sub-atomic particles, photons, and other exotic matter bumping into and even being absorbed by the material). In both "heat" cases (convection and radiation) particles of matter or energy (energy-matter to be specific) impart of their kinetic energy and sometime their entire energy to the material, causing the molecules of the material to move more intensely - which we perceive as a rise in temperature.

Since all matter is in motion then absolute zero (-273.15 C, or 0K), that state where energy-matter ceases to move, is theoretically impossible because it would require an infinite amount of energy to bring a mass of matter to that state.

So if temperature is defined as the movement of particles in a system, a vacuum which is a system devoid of particles can not have a temperature.

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