Can we travel to the sun during winter?

OMG This question brought out the best of most of the Milkey Way Gang and some great humor as well!!! Thanks!

The sun IS brighter in the winter because the Earth's orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle but an elipse with the sun at one focus. The Earth is closest to the sun on ~January 5th, so the sun will be brightest on and around that day. However, this has nothing to do with the march of the seasons, which are due to the angle of the sun above the horizon. Due to the tilt of the Earth's axis compared to the orbital plane, The sun is nearly overhead at noon in late spring and summer, but it is very low in the sky even at noon in the winter. If you don't believe me just check out the length of your shadow at ~1:00PM Daylight saving time now, and then do the same at 12:00 noon in late November or December-January and you will see what I mean. The lower sun angle means colder temperatures, regardless of where the sun is in its orbit.

the sun does not get closer to the earth at summer time. It is it s position in the sky. All year long the sun shines. In some places it s sumer. If the sun were directly above you, it would be very hot, because the rays are direct. If the sun were in the far right or left of the sky, it would be much colder. The sun is a ball of gas, therefore you couldn t land on it, or anything. It is burning hot, with it s surface temperature being 5778 K. The sun is a star, and stars are balls of gas, with no life sustainable and you couldn t land anything on it. You would not be able to get close to it at all.

I like the way you think. This is the best question I have read all day. I imagine, though, that there might be way too many other life forms that think this way, and it would be very crowded. Kind of like Palm Springs. That place is so dam hot all summer that more people like go in the winter and spring. Imagine Solar tourism on an intergalactic scale. You would need a timeshare or something.

I`m sure now that NASA has read your question, they will hop right on it and maybe next winter they`ll try to send a man to the sun !!

By-the-way, you did get several accurate answers to your question, the rest of us are having a laugh at your expense. Sorry about that.

The sun is 93 million miles away, its temperature is constant 365 days of the year. As the earth moves, it`s winter here, but it is summer somewhere else on earth. So the earth`s temp.changes, not the sun.

Why dont wi go at nite

OMG... I think you're onto something. Don't listen to these other people. I think you're the next Albert Einstein and you should immediately report your idea to NASA. You're a genius!!!!

The coolest layer of the Sun is a temperature minimum region about 500 km above the photosphere, with a temperature of about 4,000K

Above the chromosphere is a transition region in which the temperature rises rapidly from around 100,000 K to coronal temperatures closer to one million K

The corona is the extended outer atmosphere of the Sun, which is much larger in volume than the Sun itself,

The temperature of the corona is several million kelvins.

While no complete theory yet exists to account for the temperature of the corona, at least some of its heat is known to be from magnetic reconnection.

So in short It doesnt matter if it is -100 degrees on earth that sun is shining all year round.

The sun is still too hot. It doesn't change. The earth's tilt towards it does, thats what causes winter/summer.

Wow!

Why don't we all go lookin at the sun through a telescope coz its winter. its not so hot innit?

Wel maybe u try and tell us if u can go to the sun during winter.

winter just means the place on earth you live has gone a little more distance from the sun. So that doesn't decrease the temp. of the sun. And till now no material has been made or found out to take that much of heat. So while science progresses we can think of going to another solar system but not to sun yet..