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Venus returns to the evening sky and makes a close pairing with faint Neptune and then Mercury. We can catch other action in January in the Northern Hemisphere.
Full moon occurred on January 3. This was the same day that the Earth reached the closest point to the sun in its year-long orbit. Planet Earth was .9 AU from the Sun on January 3. AU stands for astronomical unit which is the average distance of the Sun from Earth. This is a good reminder that it is not Earth’s distance from the Sun that gives us the seasons, otherwise we would not
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