Sun looks bigger?

SHOULD HAVE GONE TO SPEC SAVERS LOL

What am I missing? Its monday morning at work.. cut me some slack.

It would seem that the Earth is closest to the sun in summer ..

But the opposite is true, In Dec-Jan the Earth is nearest the Sun while in July it’s farthest away ..

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 11/26/2012 08:54 AM

I always thought it was the opposite. How much closer to the sun are we now vs. summer? like 5% or so?

the same thing i told my girlfriend last night

No its winter ... When its winter we are in the longer tale in the solarcell further away from the sun.

In the summer we stand infront of the suns galaxy direction.

Pffh

So the sun warms more infront.

The axial tilt of the Earth is what creates the seasonal fluctuation:

I understand that the shift in Earth's axis is what gives us seasons, the distance difference, isn't large enough to make a significant temperature change. I'm well aware of that, I just never realized that we're actually closer to the sun in December than in June. Learn something new every day.