Every January, the earth is at perihelion, the closest to the sun for the year, and in July it is at aphelion, the farthest from the sun for the year. Earth to be closest to sun on Wednesday BURSA, Jun 21, 2011 (TUR) -- Turkey's deputy premier said on Monday that Turkish educati...
Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and one of two "ice giants" in oursolar system. The cold, blue planet is about 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth and takes around 165 Earth years to complete a single orbit around our star. Neptune spins around its axis quicker ...
Voyager 1's first pictures of Jupiter beamed back to Earth in April 1978, when the probe was 165 million miles (266 million kilometers) from home. Did you know? According to NASA, each voyager probe has about 3 million times less memory than a mobile phone and transmits data ...
The new moon of July 2024 occurs today as Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun, known as aphelion.
And what better place to start than our very ownMilky Way galaxy? This week, at an annual American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, astronomers announced they may have finallydefined the Milky Way's farthest frontier. In short, they estimate that our realm stretches more than a million...
This still image from a Juno mission animation shows how the spinning spacecraft might look during deployment of its giant solar arrays. Solar array deployment takes place just a few minutes after Juno separates from its launch vehicle upper stage booster. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...