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There’s also a perspective effect from this; at perihelion the true sun’s motion in the sky is faster than it is at aphelion, and this affects the shape of the analemma as well.

The reason the sky can appear to be so many different things is because what we perceive as the sky is actually just the different behaviours of a massive layer of gas above our heads.