Why Earth travels in a oval path around the sun
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It takes light (or any other electromagnetic radiation) just over eight minutes to travel from Sun to Earth. The seasonal changes on Earth are because of the 23.44° axial tilt of its rotation and slightly elliptical path around the Sun. The orbit varies over long periods of time according to the Milankovitch cycles.
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Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi),[1] and one complete orbit takes 365.256 days (1 sidereal year), during which time Earth has traveled 940 million km (584 million mi).[2] Ignoring the influence of other solar system bodies, Earth's orbit is an ellipse with the Earth-Sun barycenter as one focus and a current eccentricity of 0.0167; since this value is close to zero, the center of the orbit is close, relative to the size of the orbit, to the center of the Sun.