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On July 3, Earth Will Reach Its Farthest Point From The Sun – 152 Million Kilometers Away
On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called ...
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Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers
Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers 'How planets revolve' is possibly one of ...
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What If the Sun Swallowed Jupiter?
Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling Jupiter toward the Sun. If it sounds like science fiction, that’s because ...
Third known interstellar object to pass through solar system, right next to Earth’s orbit
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...
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Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week
The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.
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What Is the Analemma? | Scientific American
Our planet is tipped over by about 23.5 degrees relative to the plane of its orbit around the sun. This changes the sun’s actual position—what we call the “true sun”—in the sky and ...
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Earth Is About to Reach Its Greatest Distance From the Sun
Jupiter exerts the most influence because it is the most massive planet in our solar system, he added. How much an orbit deviates from a perfect circle is measured by its eccentricity. The higher ...