If you could look at the Earth from the side, you would decide that the Earth has very poor posture. The earth flies around the Sun, leaning a little to the side (like a sailboat with a strong wind).
Earth axis tilt
The angle of the earth's axis is 23.5 degrees from the vertical line. This happened during the deadly races, as a result of which our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago.
The Sun, Earth, and the other eight planets in our planetary system formed from a rotating cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Scientists believe that the Earth has grown to the size of a planet, absorbing particles colliding with it. Millions of years passed, worlds formed and collapsed, planets in their modern form were formed from their parts. A natural satellite of the Earth may have formed during the collision of a red-hot Earth with a large cosmic body.
Why is the earth's axis tilted?
According to Clark Chapman, an astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, it took a gigantic explosion to give Earth its current orbit. Thanks to the explosion, life on our home planet has become very interesting. The results of this blow are still stained yellow in autumn, fry the Mediterranean coast in summer, allow kids to frolic in the rivers, and in winter cause heavy snowfalls to the delight of children and the mountain city authorities.This last decisive explosion created on Earth the seasons - four seasons.
But how did this happen magically? As a result of the Big Bang, the North Pole is tilted towards the Sun for six months, and during the next half-year it is tilted in the opposite direction. When the North Pole is tilted towards the Sun, the Sun shines warmly and brightly in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are long. If the nights begin to lengthen and become colder, then the North Pole began to lean in the opposite direction from the Sun. In the Southern Hemisphere, the picture is the opposite, that is, when it is warm in the Northern Hemisphere and cold in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.
Chapman emphasizes that if the Earth's axis were strictly perpendicular to its orbit, there would be practically no seasons. The Earth’s orbit is not an ideal circle, so the temperature on the Earth would decrease slightly as the Earth moved away from the Sun. As the Earth approached the Sun, it would become a little warmer. But these weather changes would resemble a change of seasons just as a whisper resembles a cry. We would have no winter, no autumn, no spring, no summer. Such words would not even exist in our language.
