 They're obviously now very permanently docked to the ISS. But we ended up with the live sky. Welcome to July, a great month of seeing things in the sky. But how about this? The Earth is farthest from the sun on July the 5th. It's called Aphelion. Well, Aphelion Day means that the sun is 94,500,000 miles away from us. But we scratch our heads and wonder, how can it be so hot in the northern hemisphere? Well, that's about the orbital dynamics of the Earth.