However in winter the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun giving us shorter days and cooler weather.
Then later, when the Earth gets away from the sun and starts to slow down, that's the time of year we call spring and summer.
The probe was repeatedly turned towards and away from the sun, in the hope that thermal expansion and contraction would free the antenna, but to no avail.
Just over 50 extrasolar planetary systems have so far been discovered and analysis of them shows just how unusual our local system is with its giant planets (Jupiter and Saturn) positioned well away from the Sun.
Similarly, the pressure exerted by sunlight, and the force exerted by the emissions from each probe's radio antenna, were dismissed: again, both are too weak, and they would tend to push the probes away from the sun, not towards it.
Some people may wonder why we in the Northern Hemisphere have our spring and summer when our planet is far away from the sun. (Equally confusing: our fall and winter come when we are near to the sun.) Shouldn't proximity to that nice warm ball of sunshine predict our seasons?
Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.
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Now, just two years away from 2000, the sun provides less than 1 percent of the U.S. energy supply.
The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.
The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.
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These are physical blockers which protect the skin by either deflecting sun rays or reflecting them away from the skin, like a mirror.
Viewed from ten light-years away, the sun's side-to-side astrometric wobble due to the effect of the earth is just one millionth of an arcsecond, or a twentieth of the tiniest angle that the Keck will be able to measure.
Hidden in a hangar at the US Navy's Patuxent River Air Base, in Maryland, away from prying eyes and shaded from the intense sun, US and British ground crew made the final preparations before the plane took to the clear blue skies.
Sun Microsystems invented the Java language and started a mass exodus of computer programming talent away from Microsoft toward Sun.
We also moved our critical applications (office productivity) away from Microsoft to OpenOffice, the free software developed by Sun and thankfully still supported by Oracle.
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On November 17, 1998, Voyager 1 became the most distant man-made object from the Sun when it reached a point further away than NASA probe Pioneer 10, which launched in 1972.
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The abundance of such compounds tells us that the sun grew up less than 1 light year away from a massive star that exploded.
Just as Microsoft can give away its browser because it makes money from the Windows operating system and Office, so Sun can afford to make StarPortal free because it makes so much from selling the powerful servers that host web pages and other data.
Away from the rallies, I visited a temple in the suburb of Dehiwala as the early morning sun hit the majestic bo tree.
When the sun is very active, it can be thought of as pushing away cosmic rays from the Earth, reducing their incidence.
Less than a mile away, by the waterfront, multi-million dollar yachts idle in the marina, gleaming white, shaded from the sun by rows of white canvas awnings, the very picture of California dreaming.
The film introduces little Johnny Cash, grieving for an older brother, joining the Air Force to get away from a hard-hearted dad, marrying his school sweetheart and auditioning at Sun Records with a gospel tune.
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