{"id":4185,"date":"2026-07-07T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:05:52","slug":"the-suns-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/the-suns-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"the sun&#8217;s out there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">somewhere \ud83d\ude00 &#8220;<em>Aphelion in NSW Australia was today Tue 7 July 2026 at 3:30 am AEST<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-solstice-aphelion-orbit-earth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-solstice-aphelion-orbit-earth.png\" alt=\"Perihelion and Aphelion\nBy Aparna Kher\nThe Earth is closest to the Sun, at its perihelion, about two weeks after the December solstice and farthest from the Sun, or at its aphelion, about two weeks after the June solstice.\nDiagram showing the distance between the Sun and Earth at different times of the year (perihelion and aphelion).\nEarth is farthest from the Sun when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. \u00a9timeanddate.com\" class=\"wp-image-4187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-solstice-aphelion-orbit-earth.png 671w, https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-solstice-aphelion-orbit-earth-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/perihelion-aphelion-solstice.html\">https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/perihelion-aphelion-solstice.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>somewhere \ud83d\ude00 &#8220;Aphelion in NSW Australia was today Tue 7 July 2026 at 3:30 am AEST&#8220; https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/perihelion-aphelion-solstice.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","tag-environment-and-biodiversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}