Yes, the sun has been rising later despite getting closer to summer. Here's why
But the days are indeed getting longer because, as you might guess, the sun has also been setting later. While it rose at ...
Today Earth Is Closest To A ‘Solar Maximum’ Sun. So Why Is It So Cold?
Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...
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Closer to the sun, yet cold as ice
At 7:28 this morning, the earth reached the point at which it is closest to the sun in its orbit, known as the perihelion.
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The Sky This Week from January 3 to 10: Earth’s closest approach to the Sun
Earth reaches perihelion this morning at 8 A.M. EST, when our planet’s not-quite-circular orbit brings us to our closest point to the Sun for the year. On this day, we are just 91.4 million ...
How the Earth’s tilt creates short, cold January days
When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...
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Spacecraft makes closest-ever fly-by of Sun: what the trip will tell us
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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John Wheeler: Earth is at perihelion Friday evening
The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...
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The Winter Solstice: A Turning Point in the Year
The winter solstice is a significant astronomical event that marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, this occurs annually around December 21 or ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
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NASA spacecraft 'safe' after closest-ever approach to sun
flying into the sun's outer atmosphere — called the corona — on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star. The agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins ...