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What really causes the seasons (it is not distance from the Sun)
Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January. The seasons come from the tilt of Earth’s axis.
Inside the James Webb Space Telescope
A gold-coated mirror, a sunshield the size of a tennis court and an orbit 1.5 million kilometres away: how Webb sees the early universe.