The relationship between Earth's position in its orbit and the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere.

The tilt of Earth's axis. Image © Richard Harwood, Black Hawk College.

The tilt of Earth's axis. Image © Richard Harwood, Black Hawk College.

The inner planetary orbits. Mercury's orbit has the highest eccentricity in the solar system.

The relationship between Earth's position in its orbit and the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere.

The direction of Earth's rotation axis around the sun

Earth's orbit if you look at it edge on

Planetary orbit with an eccentricity of 0.5

In the northern latitudes, stars appear to move in a clockwise direction around Polaris due to Earth's counterclockwise rotation