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This year Aphelion, the point in Earth's elliptical orbit when it is farthest from the Sun, occurs tomorrow, July 4th.Of course, that doesn't affect the seasons on our fair planet .Those are determined by the tilt of Earth's axis of rotation and notEarth's distance from the Sun, so July is still winter in the southand summer in northern hemisphere.But it does mean that on July 4th the Sun will be at its smallestapparent size.This composite neatly compares two pictures of the Sun taken with thesame telescope and camera on thedates of Perihelion (closest approach) and Aphelion in 2008.The image labels include Earth's distance in kilometersfrom the Sun on the two dates.Otherwise difficult to notice , the change in the Sun'sapparent diameter between Perihelionand Aphelion is clear.The difference amounts to a little over 3 percent.


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