Earth Is At Its Closest To The Sun In 2021. So Why Aren’t We All Sunbathing?

Our planet and everyone upon it is now as close to the Sun as we’ll get in 2021. At 13:51 Universal Time on January 2, 2021 the Earth reaches 91,399,453 miles/147,093,162 million kilometers from the Sun, or 0.98 au. That’s about 3% closer than average, which means our planets receives more intense …