Stig Östlund

tisdag, januari 07, 2020

It’s Cold Outside, but Earth Is at Its Closest Approach to the Sun

In the wee hours of Sunday (2:47 a.m. Eastern time, to be exact), Earth will make its closest approach to the sun and reach a point in its orbit known as perihelion. Chilly as winter may feel in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re more than three million miles closer to our fiery star than we were in the dead of summer.

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