Perihelion.
The nearest star to Earth is the Sun.
I'll have to say that Earth's nearest star is the Sun............... I know for sure that mercury's closest star is the Sun ( The Sun is a Star) Yes the nearest star is the sun
The Sun is nearest star to Earth. Its light takes about 8 min. 20.33 sec. to reach to Earth. Its mine the distance of the Sun is near about 150 million km.
The closest point to the Sun in a planet's orbit is called perihelion. The furthest point is called aphelion. Phil
That happens when the Earth is at the point in its orbit called the "perihelion". In our times ... I mean the times when humans are walking the Earth ... the Earth sails through that point sometime during the first couple of days of January. In 2014, it'll be at 6:59 AM Eastern Time (11:59 AM UT) on the morning of January 4.
The point on Earth nearest to the sun is the top of the Equatorial bulge around the equator. This is due to the Earth's obliquity and elliptical orbit.
Nearest: "Perihelion", reached in January.Farthest: "Aphelion", reached in July.
the sun is earth's nearest star!
There is one single point in the Earth's orbit where it is closest to the sun. That point is called the "perihelion".
The nearest star to Earth is the Sun.
No. Earth is a planet. The planet Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun. The nearest star to the Sun is called Proxima Centauri.
The planet Mercury is closest to the sun, at about three-tenths Earth's distance at the nearest point in its orbit.
The star nearest the Earth is the sun. If you mean which is the nearest other than the sun, it is called Proxima Centauri.
When the earth is nearest the sun, we say it is at its perihelion. This happens around January 4th.
The earth's orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle, so there is a point at which we are nearest to the sun, and a point at which we are farthest from it. The point in the orbit at which we are nearest the sun is called "perihelion". The earth passes that point at some time during the first few days in January. In 2011, it happened on January 3. The point in the orbit at which we are farthest from the sun is called "aphelion". We pass it at some time during the first few days of July.
The Earth's aphelion - the farthest its present orbit takes it from the Sun - is 152,097,701 kilometres. The other point, the perihelion - the nearest it gets to the Sun on its present orbit - is 147,098,074 kilometres
I'll have to say that Earth's nearest star is the Sun............... I know for sure that mercury's closest star is the Sun ( The Sun is a Star) Yes the nearest star is the sun