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It's not so much the Sun that changes; rather, Earth's axis is tilted (with respect to a perpendicular to Earth's plane of orbit). As a result, when Earth is on one side of the Sun, the northern hemisphere gets more sunlight; when Earth is on the other side of the Sun, it is the Southern Hemisphere that gets more sunlight.

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