What Is The Earth Tilt On Its Axis

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The seasons are caused by tilt of Earth's rotational axis away or toward the sun as it travels on its year long path around the sun. The Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees relative to the “ecliptic plane” the imaginary surface formed by its almost circular path around the sun the tilt towards the sun is maximised during northern hemisphere summer in late June the summer solstice.
There are so much stars in the galaxy that some of them we can not discover in the universe.At night you can see some of the milky way.
The sun is actually closest to the Northern hemisphere in winter not summer and the sun is always closest to the Northern hemisphere What is the Earth's Axis?
The two axises point in the same in the earth.In astronomy axis tilt also known as obliquity, is the angle between and object rotaininal axis and its orbital axis even the angle between it.The earths tilt is currently at 23.5 degrees.
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What would would happen if the earth did not tilt on its axis?
Why is it that important that the earth is tilted on its axis?
What is the angle of inclination of the earth on its axis?
In the solar systems there are asteroids meteors and comets.As of 2008 there are 5 dwarf planets Pluto,Ceres,Eris,Makemake and haumea.For thousands of years humans did not know of the qalaxy they only thought the earth was the center of the universe.The outer planets also known as the gas giants are much larger mostley made out of hydroden heliem and other gasses.The solar system had formed around 4.6 billion years

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