Earth reaches the farthest point of the sun today

The Earth Daily, 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 in the middle of summer in the northern half of the globe, which tells us that the distance to the sun is not the cause of the four seasons. The Earth travels about 5 million kilometers farther from the Sun than it would be in six months, compared to the distance from the Earth. 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 occurred in the Oge on July 4, slightly closer to 152,092, 505 km

She pointed out that the cause of the four seasons due to the tilt of the Earth's axis of 23, 4 degrees, we now live 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 the # Winter .