No. The sun isn't anywhere near the path of earth. The earth travels a long, closed path
around the sun, and is always about 93 million miles away from it.
earth's path around the sun is its orbit
The Earth moves round the Sun in a path called an orbit. All the planets go round the Sun in their own orbits, that way they do not collide. For the Earth, one whole circle round the Sun takes exactly one year.
Earth's path around the Sun is called Earth's Orbit.
The path that the Earth takes around the sun is called its orbit.
The name of the path the earth takes around the sun is known as the orbit. The earth takes slightly over 365 to complete its revolution round the sun.
The earth's axis of rotation is tilted relative to the earth's path around the sun. As a result we are tilted towards the sun in the summer and away from the sun in the winter.
Solar Eclipse- When the moon passes between the sun and the earth the moon blocks our vision of the sun. Lunar Eclipse- When the earth sits exactly between the sun and the moon, the earth blocks the sun's rays from hitting (and reflecting) off the moon.
If only gravity were acting on Earth, it would continue revolving around the Sun in its elliptical orbit without any external forces to change its path. The force of gravity between the Earth and the Sun would keep Earth in its current orbit, so it would not be pulled closer to the Sun.
The Earth orbits the sun. (Earth travels around the sun on an oval path.)
When we view the rising and setting of the sun, we assume the viewpoint of a motionless Earth, but we know that the Earth is actually rotating on its axis, and the sun does not orbit the Earth.
An orbit is the path a planet takes around the sun. Earth's orbit is an ellipse. It takes the Earth one year to travel along the elliptical path around the sun.
The oval-shaped path that the Earth takes around the sun is called an orbit.