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24 hours. This is called a "solar day".

Well, to be precise, exactly one rotation of the Earth is 23 hours 56 minutes. This is called a "sidereal day", or a day with reference to the fixed stars. The Earth is moving at about 67,000 miles per hour in its orbit, so it takes the Earth another 4 minutes to spin around to have the same alignment with the Sun as the previous day.

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