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During a one-year period, the poles are always pointing to the same points in space no matter where the earth is in its orbit. That is why a different pole is tilted toward the sun every half year.

Actually the direction that the poles point rotates, too, but it's so slow that it takes about 26,000 years to complete one cycle. That rotation is called the precession of the equinoxes.

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