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Earth's rotation is speeding up for 2 more days this summer — including today
There are a total of three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest distance from Earth’s equator, resulting in a minuscule increase in the Earth’s spin speed. One of them occurred on July 9, when the day was shortened by nearly 1.4 milliseconds. The remaining two days are predictions from scientists:
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On July 3, Earth Will Reach Its Farthest Point From The Sun – 152 Million Kilometers AwayOn 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 aphelion. Our planet’s orbit is very close to a circle, but it is not a ...
Earth's orbit around the Sun also plays a role in the changing of seasons. The orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an elliptical shape. While this elliptical orbit does affect the ...
Earth’s seasons result from a variety of factors, including orbit and axial tilt. When a planet has an obliquity of more than 54 degrees, that planet's equator grows icy and the pole becomes ...
Earth on Tuesday made its closest approach to the sun, an annual celestial event that happens to occur at the start of the new year. The planet follows an elliptical orbit around the sun, ...
NASA launches probe on historic mission to study the sun 02:38. On January 2, 2021, Earth is closer to the sun in its elliptical orbit than on any other day of the year, marking an annual ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles (940 million km). Skip to content.
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