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The July 2025 full 'Buck Moon' will give stargazers an opportunity to appreciate several distinct quirks of orbital mechanics ...
Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...
Earth’s orbit is fairly circular,” said Larry Wasserman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, ... At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles.
We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...
A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...