One of the results of the way gravity works is that a small body in an orbit around a large body moves in a plane. So every point in the earth's orbit around the sun is in the same plane. If you want to be perfectly technical ... the center of mass of the earth/moon system orbits the center of mass of the (sun + all the planets + all their moons) system. But the differences are so small that you can legitimately picture it as if the center of the earth orbits the center of the sun. The plane of the earth's orbit is what we call the "Ecliptic Plane". The orbits of the other planets are in close to the same plane but not exactly.
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The earths orbit around the sun is almost circular.
No, the sun is an object. A fairly ordinary star. An orbit is the closed circular path taken by an object around another object. The suns orbit is the path it takes around the galactic centre. A journey of some 250 million years to complete one orbit. In comparison the earths orbit around the sun takes one year.
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