The top half of the Earth we call the northern hemisphere, and the bottom half we call the southern hemisphere. At this point in the orbit, the Earth’s tilt means that the southern hemisphere is ...

Indeed, many people assume Earth is closer to the sun in summer than in winter. As it happens, this is true during summer in the southern hemisphere ... So, Earth's orbit only has a relatively ...

This tilt causes different amounts of sunlight to reach different regions of the planet during Earth's year-long orbit around ... holds true for the Southern Hemisphere, where June brings the ...

Though the Winter Solstice is an annual event, Earth actually experiences two Winter Solstices each year. One in the Northern Hemisphere, and the other in the Southern Hemisphere. According to ...

And Southern Hemisphere observers ... 600 million kilometers from Earth and the sun. In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit—and it turned out to be a ...

According to the Planetary Society, the Southern Hemisphere ... view 200 miles above Earth on the International Space Station. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit.