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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.
On the left side of the animation, numbers indicate the speeds of Earth's rotation, its orbit around the sun, the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling ...
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Earth's orbit of the Sun
which is not perpendicular to Earth’s orbit. During winter, the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun’s rays. As the Earth travels around the Sun, the tilt gradually causes the northern ...
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Planet Earth, explained
This axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun, giving us seasons. Whichever hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun experiences summer ...
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center — and it's not the sun
It's common knowledge that the sun is the center of the solar system. Around ... animations to show how the physics of planets, stars, and the speed of light work. "The natural thinking is that we ...