Earth will be at its minimum distance from the Sun on January 4, making the star’s apparent diameter the largest of the year, the Russian capital’s planetarium reported today.
According to astronomers from the Russian Science Unit, early next month the Sun will visually appear three percent larger than in July, as the distance between the star and planet Earth will be smaller.
On Wednesday, January 4, 2023, the Moscow Planetarium indicated that Earth will be 147 million 98,000 929 kilometers from the star, making the star’s observable diameter the largest in 2023.
The astronomers also reminded that our planet completes one revolution around the sun in 365 days, six hours, nine minutes and 10 seconds.
The Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun, and the point of Earth’s orbit closest to the Sun, which it passes through in early January, is called perihelion.
At the extreme point, the aphelion, the earth will be in early July.
In conclusion, the Russian astronomers recalled that the Sun can only be studied with a telescope and other optical instruments using special filters to avoid irreparable damage to the retina.
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