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Muscat: Planet Earth will reach the farthest distance in its orbit around the Sun on Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 8:06 pm GMT, about two weeks after the Summer Solstice.
Engineer Majid Abu Zahra, Director of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, said in a statement that the Earth reaches the farthest distance from the Sun in the middle of summer in the northern half, and this is one of the paradoxes that confirms that the distance from the sun is not the reason for the occurrence of the four seasons.
Director of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah emphasised that the reason for the occurrence of the four seasons is due to the inclination of the earth's axis of rotation of 23.4 degrees. It is now summer in the northern hemisphere.
Abu Zahra explain that the changing distance between the Earth and the Sun is not the cause of the occurrence of the seasons, but it affects the length of their duration. When the Earth is far from the Sun, as it is now, it moves slowly, and this is what makes summer the longest of the four seasons in the northern half of the Earth and winter the longest season in the southern half.
Dr. Ashraf Tadros, professor at the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, said that the Moon will rise in conjunction with the planet Saturn, “the pearl of the Solar System on Thursday, at approximately 11:10 pm. This conjunction can be seen with the naked eye until dawn the day after tomorrow, when this scene disappears due to the intensity of the morning twilight as a result of the sunrise.
