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Where does the sun go at night?
The earth is a sphere that revolves around the sun,
along with the seven other planets of the solar
system. One revolution of the earth around the sun
takes one calendar year.
While it is going around the sun, the earth also spins
on its own axis. Each ‘spin’ takes 24 hours, that is, a
day and a night.
Whichever part of the earth is facing the sun has
day. At the same time, the other half of the earth
(the part turned away from the sun) has night. Then
the earth slowly spins around and the half that was
in darkness (that is, the half that was turned away
from the sun) now faces the sun. So this half has
day, and the other half, which turned away from the
sun has night. So, in reality, the sun does not really
go anywhere at night!
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