It just so happens that the Sun is approximately 400 times larger than the Moon and also 400 times more distant from the Earth. Earth’s size compared with the Moon. Distances not to scale.

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion.

That’s 0.9833 astronomical units (au). An au is the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, a unit of measurement used by astronomers when measuring on a solar system-scale.

The angle of the Earth's tilt is relatively stable, but there are some slight shifts over large time scales (tens of thousands of years). According to NASA, the angle is slowly decreasing.

The solar wind is a ubiquitous feature of our solar system. This relentless high-speed flow of charged particles from the sun fills interplanetary space. On Earth, it triggers geomagnetic storms ...

Or - I don't know if the sun is on a different time scale. JACKSON: I mean, well, we can have solar activity every day, but we do have solar cycles. We have solar minimums and solar maximum.