What is the circular motion that the earth makes in its orbit around the sun

Our planet Earth rotates around its axis from west to east. An axis is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. If you look on the Earth from the northern hemisphere, it rotates counter clockwise. One complete rotation around its own axis relative to the Sun is called a solar day and has a duration of 24 hours. Our Earth doesn’t rotate just around its own axis, but it also orbits in the same direction around the Sun and moves a little bit on orbit every day. Therefore the Earth gets in the same position relative to the celestial stars in a shorter time. This is called a sidereal day which has a duration of 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds. This is the reason why the stars appear about four minutes earlier in the sky every day. A sidereal day is a period that takes the Earth to rotate around its axis so that the distant stars appear in the same position in the sky.

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