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In science this term, we are studying our ‘Spinning Earth’. We are investigating day and night, shadows and our place in space.

FACT

The sun is the centre of the solar system. The Earth orbits the sun once every year. The Earth rotates on its axis. As it rotates,one half of the Earth faces the sun and  has daylight. The other half faces away  from the sun so it has night-time. This makes night and day on Earth every 24 hours.

Watch this amazing video  

February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day, capturing an image more than one per second.