The gradual separation of our planet from the Sun will affect the fact that the amount of sunlight will gradually decrease.
Due to the oval orbit of our planet, the distance of the Earth from the Sun can vary from 147.1 million to 152.1 million kilometers. This is reported by Live Science.
Astronomer Brian DiGiorgio of the University of California at Santa Cruz believes that the distance between Earth and the Sun is slowly increasing over time. There are two main reasons for the increase in distance. One of them is that the Sun is losing mass. One has to do with the same forces that cause water to flow on Earth.
“Our Sun, according to forecasts, has 5 billion years left to live, but there will come a time when our star will begin to slowly die, and before that, the Sun will lose about 0.1% of its mass. Although it does not disappear. It seems a lot, but this figure is comparable to the mass of Jupiter, which is 318 times heavier than Earth,” said the scientist.
Also, according to DiGiorgio, the Sun is losing mass, its attraction to the Earth is weakening, as a result of which our planet is moving away from the star by about six centimeters per year.
“But for now, it’s not worth worrying about it, it’s too small a distance,” he assured.
Earlier it was reported that the Earth began to rotate faster around its axis so that the shortest day was recorded.
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