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      If they were orbiting a star for long enough, maybe. (Long enough = thousand or millions of years) Maybe a skeleton in a small cloud ?

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          If I ever find myself in this situation I’ll spend my last minute poking holes in one side of my body so that every time I get closer to the sun and start to off gas I spin just a little bit faster.

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          That sounds about right. No decay in the traditional sense, hard vacuum in unfiltered sunlight is going to be a pretty great sterilization method. You’ll offgas almost all of your water over time, so you’ll be a spooky mummy at least.

          Over time the raw power of the sun and random cosmic ray will “decay” you via splitting apart your component molecules, but i dont know if thats enough to truely poof you away or just make you a very bleached mummy.

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          Not decay as they would be frozen, obviously.

          Sublimation. As long as it gets energy from radiation some atoms or molecules would randomy get enough to f off into space. In my theory, at least. And bones would stay last as they are the hardest.

          Sublimation happens all the time. I got that from AlphaPhoenix on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqQyeqGIBE Really cool science channel

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        I think radiation would riddle the body, taking small chunks out all the time so it would look like a swiss cheese skeleton.