Since Earth’s orbit around the sun is elliptical, it sometimes approaches and sometimes moves away from our star during its journey around the Sun. And today, the distance of our planet from the Sun has reached 152.1 million kilometers. This point is the point where the Earth is farthest from the Sun. The distance between the Sun and the Earth is usually 149.6 million kilometers.
If the Earth’s orbit around the Sun were circular, the distance between us would not change at all. But this distance change doesn’t change much on a large scale, because the Sun-Earth distance changes by about 2 percent. So when the distance increases that much, the weather does not get cold.
Although the approximate distance from the Sun to the Earth might seem to affect the weather, this is not exactly the case. “The seasons are determined not by the shape of the Earth’s orbit, but by the tilt of its axis by 23.5 degrees,” says Professor George Lebo of NASA. That’s why in July, the northern hemisphere continues to stay warm, even though the distance between them has increased.
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