The distance between the sun and our planet will be minimal, today, Sunday, January 5, and as a result, the disk of the celestial body in the telescope will appear 3% larger, and Russian astronomer Lidmela Cushman told the Russian “TASS” agency, “Our planet will be at rock bottom, which is the closest point where it is The earth is from the sun as the planet passes it once a year and the earth at this time is 147 million km away from the sun, “according to the Russian agency Sputnik.
While the planet passes the farthest point from the sun, which is called the Earth’s Apogee, in early July, and is more than 152 million km away from the sun, the difference between the size of the sun at these two points is imperceptible to the eye, and the change in the size of the solar disk occurs smoothly for a period of six months.
The expert pointed out that the change of seasons on Earth is due to the fact that the Earth’s axis of rotation has a tendency to the level of the Earth’s orbit, not at all because the distance between the Earth and the sun changes, noting that our planet occurs a full cycle around the sun in 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 10 seconds , And the earth moves around the sun in an elliptical orbit with an average velocity of 29.765 km / s.
Recall that The world witnessed last eclipse last DecemberThe eclipse occurs one day after Christmas, when the solar eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun, and the rays are prevented from reaching for a short time, and the eclipse was visible in parts of India, Australia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.
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