<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2023/0702.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>July 2, 2023</title><item_date>07/02/2023 05:14:23 PM</item_date><author/><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/july-2-2023-BNS-H.jpg" alt="Bakersfield sky in early July at 9:30PM looking west-southwest"/></image><tags><tag>2023</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Saturday, July 2, 2023 On Thursday, July 6 at 1:06 p.m. Pacific Time, Earth will be at the aphelion point of its orbit—its farthest distance from the sun, equal to 94,506,364 miles. That’s 3.1 million miles farther out from the sun than it was in...</content_summary></item>