The first person to do this was Kepler.
The 8 planets orbit around the Sun, in ellipses.
Kepler did not discover ellipses. In 1605 he discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses rather than perfect circles.
Ellipses
They move around the Sun in ellipses - just like the planets.
Planets revolve around the Sun. The Sun does not revolve or rotate around the planets. Planetary orbits are best described as an ellipse. Revolving is when the planet goes around the Sun. Rotating is when the planet spins on its own axis. The Earth does one revolution in 365 days but one rotation in 24 hours.
Ellipses are a scientific word for the shape of an oval. for example the planets orbits are ellipses.
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Ellipses.
The 8 planets orbit around the Sun, in ellipses.
Kepler did not discover ellipses. In 1605 he discovered that the orbits of the planets were ellipses rather than perfect circles.
Ellipses
ellipses.
One of the discoveries that led to the modern view of the Solar System was that the "orbits" of the planets were ellipses.
ellipses
Kepler discovered that the planets orbit the sun in oval shaped paths called ellipses.
The traditional model was that they moved in "epicycles", which is basically a point on a circle, which both rotates, and revolves around another circle.Since the planets actually move around the Sun in ellipses, this model is not entirely accurate.