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Earth will reach its aphelion—or the farthest point in its elliptical orbit around the sun—on July 3, making the strawberry moon one of the farthest full moons from our star, per Live Science.

Mars, for example, is tilted by about 25 degrees, similar to Earth. Its orbit is much more elliptical, however, and that dominates the analemma, making it more teardrop-shaped.

A newly discovered object called 2017 OF201, likely a dwarf planet, travels in an extremely wide elliptical orbit (yellow), a new study suggests. The orbit of the dwarf planets Sedna and Pluto are ...

Kaib previously published work that suggested Earth's orbit was altered by a passing star three million years ago. “We looked at the typical, run-of-the-mill flybys,” Raymond told New Scientist.

But while the orbit and tilt of the planet play their part, this is not the only factor involved. In fact, what analemmas are measuring really is how far local time (e.g. UCT) differs from mean ...

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