The globe is near the sun most of the year

If you look at the sun on January 2, you will probably find it bigger than normal, because that is the day when the earth reaches a near-daily point in orbit in 2013.

150 million km is the average distance between the sun and the earth. (Photo: wordpress.com)

At the near-Japanese point (the closest point to the sun on orbit) yesterday, the distance between the globe and the sun is 147,098,161km. Even so, perhaps people did not notice the difference in the size of the solar disk when it came to the near-point when it came to the farthest point from the sun. The difference in solar size at those two points was only 3.4% - the ratio was too small for the human eye to detect, Space reported.

The average distance between the sun and the globe is about 150 million km. The green planet will reach the farthest point from the sun on July 5. There it will be 152,097,427km away from the sun.

So what will people feel when the planet reaches the near-daily point? Perhaps we will feel a little hotter, because the closer the Earth is to the sun, the more heat it receives. In fact, the temperature difference on earth in the near-Japan point and the farthest point from the sun is 2.3 degrees C.