The Earth is one day away from being at the perihelion point of its orbit (this will occur on January 3), so we are seeing the Sun at nearly its largest it can get in our sky.  Compare the size of the Sun today with that of July 4, 2025, which was one day after aphelion, the farthest point from the Sun in our orbit; as can be seen from the images, it's almost impossible to tell the difference just by looking at them.  Using the figures of 152.1 million km for Earth's aphelion distance and 147.1 million km for its perihelion distance, we see that this ratio is 1.034, so our measurement of the disk sizes is not quite accurate.  Meanwhile, Venus and Mars continue to approach their respective conjunctions.  All three objects are moving toward the lower left when measured against the stars, but Venus is outpacing the Sun, while Mars is being outpaced by the Sun.  Unannotated image.