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Sun Distance Required to Match Apparent Size at Perihelion

I believe that you can use the principle of similar triangles to solve this problem. Let D_sun be the…

Planets that are in orbits that are closer to the Sun than Earth (Venus and Mercury) generally follow the…

At any given time it is the Earth’s equator that receives the most sunlight throughout the year. Hopefully I…

As you noted, the overall answer to this question was provided in our previous post, which noted that we…

I believe that my answer to the question What is the Minimum Temperature Required to Fuse Hydrogen Atoms? referred…

In fact, all total solar eclipses are due to the projected disk of the Moon completely covering the projected…

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