Earth reaches perihelion — the term for its closest approach to the sun — onSunday (Jan.5) at 2:48 a.m. EST(0748 GMT), according to EarthSky.org. For those living on the U.S. West Coast, the moment occurs on Jan. 4 at 11:48 p.m. PST. How many months does it take Earth...
If you ask most people which month of the year they think Earth is closest to the Sun, most would probably say during June, July, or August. But our warm weather doesn’t relate to our distance from the Sun.It’s because of the 23.5-degree tiltof the Earth’s axis that the Sun is...
All this explains why July is our planet's warmest month: Northern continents baked by the aphelion Sun elevate the average temperature of the entire globe. January, on the other hand, is the coolest month because that's when our planet presents its water-dominated hemisphere to the Sun. "...