<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2024/0707.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — July 7, 2024</title><item_date>06/19/2024 09:47:16 PM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/july-07-2024-BNS-h.jpg" alt="Early July one hour after sunset looking West with Inset of location of T Cor Borealis"/></image><tags><tag>2024</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>Last Thursday was Earth’s aphelion day, its farthest distance from the sun at 94.51 million miles.  Did you feel the difference in the middle of summer? Well, probably not since our temperatures are determined by the angle of sunlight and the length...</content_summary></item>