Now We Are Running Frantically Away from the Sun

You know how thinking about space and the speed of celestial bodies makes you kind of want to vomit and put your hands over your ears and lay flat on the ground, like a car-sick dog? Well, bad news! Because yesterday we were pretty much as close to the sun as we ever get, and now we are rocketing away from it and, if I understand the math, picking up speed as we travel away. The good news is that the sun looks about 3% bigger than it does in mid-summer! And there’s more light, so your SAD is easily treatable. And if you’d like to learn more and/or argue about celestial math, elliptical orbits and acceleration, here is the place to do so.