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Earth, Friday, reaches the farthest point of its orbit around the sun at 16:47 GMT.
The Jeddah Astronomical Society revealed in a report that, paradoxically, the Earth is located at the end of the mid-summer sun in the northern half of the Earth, indicating that the distance from the sun is not the cause of the four seasons. The Earth is now moving about 5 million kilometers farther from the Sun than it would be in six months, compared to the distance from the Earth. From the sun of about 150 million km.
This year, the Earth will be at the extreme point of the sun at 152,095,566 km from last year when the Earth appeared in the Oge on July 4, slightly closer 152,092,505 km.
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She pointed out that the cause of the four seasons due to the inclination of the axis of rotation of the earth of 23, 4 degrees, we are now living in the summer because the Earth in the orbit, where the northern part tends to the sun while the southern half sinks So, there is winter.
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