Dr O’Donoghue shared some fascinating animations based on data from NASA JPL Horizons system in a Twitter thread to depict ...

though since Earth moves around the sun at about 66,600 mph.) To illustrate what's going on during an equinox, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation (below) last year.

James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, created an animation that neatly ... planet is tilted relative to the sun. The axis around which the Earth ...

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 ...