Damascus-SANA
On the fourth of next July, the sun's disk appears smaller than its usual size, because the Earth is at its farthest point from the sun at 10.10 am Damascus time, according to a member of the Board of Directors of the Syrian Astronomical Society, Nabil Al-Bish.
Al-Bish pointed out that the distance between the Earth and the sun at the aphelion expands by about five million kilometers, with a distance between them of 15,2098,455 kilometers, before returning to its “perihelion” near the sun on January 4, 2023 with a distance of 14,709,000 kilometers, in contrast to the average distance between them, which is about 150 million kilometers.
Al-Bish indicated in a statement to SANA that the distance between the earth and the sun is not noticed much except by a composite photographic process for a period of approximately six months between perihelion and apogee, even with difficulty for the expert eye on this day, especially if we know that the percentage of the size of the sun has not changed for the viewer except by 3.6 percent.
Al-Bish denied that this has anything to do with the increase in temperature in the northern half of the planet, since we are in the summer or the coldness in the southern half of the planet because they are in the winter, because our distance from the sun is not related to the formation of seasons, but only affects their length, as the summer is the longest season in the northern hemisphere and reaches 93.6 Winter is the longest season in the Southern Hemisphere, 93 days.
Mohamed Emad Al-Daghly
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