DescriptionEclipticpath.jpg English: While in reality the Earth goes in an orbit around the Sun, it seems from the Earth that the Sun moves over the ecliptic (red)
English Milky Way with galactic plane, ecliptic and celestial equator applies to jurisdiction: United States of America determination method: work of the
overlay for the rectangular time-lapse showing the Sun's annual path, also know as the ecliptic. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center determination method:
The ecliptic plane is defined as the imaginary plane containing the Earth's orbit around the Sun. In the course of a year, the Sun's apparent path through