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In the Northern Hemisphere, the tilt of the Earth in relation to the sun produces shorter days in winter, and longer nights. At the same time, the Southern Hemisphere is having longer days, shorter nights.
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∙ 12y ago
Minh Võ
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∙ 11y agoBecause the earth rotates.
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This supposedly simple question is actually really hard to answer! Astronomers have puzzled and really thought about it because there are trillions of stars in the universe that are just as bright as the sun, so when the earth rotates, the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers claimed that the night sky should be as bright as the daytime sky when we are facing the sun - this is known as Olbers Paradox. In more recent years, other astronomers have studied galaxies and claimed that the universe has not always existed (it started on the day of the big bang), and that is has itself been expanding ever since, this results is stars being red-shifted out of the visible range so the light can never reach us (as the light is travelling to earth at the same time the star is moving further away) - resulting in a "dark" sky.
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∙ 14y ago- The sun rotates around the earth
- only at day time you can see the sun
- it is dark at midnight because when the sun is at the front side of the earth it is day time and when the sun is at the back of the earth it is night time so it is dark at midnight because it is still at the back of the earth at midnight so its not quite morning.
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∙ 10y agoIf you mean why it gets dark earlier in the winter, it is because the Earth tilts on it's axis and when it is winter in the northern or southern hemisphere, the Earth tilts you more towards the darkness of space and not the sun, resulting in fewer gours of daylight.
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∙ 15y agoThe part of the earth that is dark is facing away from the sun, due to the earths daily 360 degree rotation.
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∙ 14y agoBecause the axis that the Earth revolves around isn't perpendicular to the sun. This means that during winter the northern hemisphere points away from the sun, and get less hours of sunshine.
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∙ 11y agoBecause your side of the earth is tilted away from the Sun and when the earth spins your side has a smaller spin radius
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∙ 9y agoThe axis is tilted
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