Happy Perihelion!

On January 5, 2020, at 0547 UTC (2:47 am ET) the Earth reached perihelion in its orbit around the Sun. At that time the Earth was 147,091,144 km (91,381,199 mi) from the Sun. The Earth's will reach aphelion, the point in our elliptical orbit furthest from the Sun, on June 4, 2020. Enjoy the closest of our favorite star, the Sun!