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Get ready for a sky show! August's Sturgeon Moon will light up the nights from August 8–10 with a rare view of Venus, Saturn, ...

The August 2025 full moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, comes with a bonus planetary lineup, a meteor shower, and more.

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles.

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Aphelion Day 2024 occurred early in the morning, at exactly 1:06 a.m. EDT, on Friday, July 5. Aphelion comes from two Greek words "apo" and "helios," meaning away and sun.

The difference between the two is substantial: three million miles. At perihelion, our planet is 91.4 million miles from the sun. At aphelion, it is 94.5 million miles away.

Perihelion precession On Earth, perihelion and aphelion at one point coincided with the winter and summer solstice. But that was back in 1246, according to Time and Date.

Good morning! Top o’ the orbit to you! At 8:06 P.M. UTC (4:06 P.M. EDT) on July 6, 2023, Earth will reach the point in its orbit when it’s farthest from the sun. In a sense, it’s like our ...

As a result, the earth is nearly 1.5 million miles farther from the sun around July 4th at aphelion, and about 1.5 million miles closer to the sun around January 4th, which is called perihelion.

Derived from the Greek words "apo," meaning away, and "helios," meaning Sun, aphelion brings Earth 3.1 million miles further than perihelion in January. Like the dates of the solstices (which ...