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Astronomy and space science - Introduction

The solar system contains planets, their satellites, asteroids and comets. The planets orbit the Sun and take different amounts of time to do this.

We have night and day on Earth because the Earth spins on its axis. The tilt of the Earth's axis causes the seasons to change as we orbit the Sun in one Earth year.

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