Q. We know that the length of days changes as the axis of the Earth points either toward or away from the sun. But as days get longer, is the “extra” daylight added equally in morning and evening, or otherwise?
A. In our winter, the North Pole tips away from the sun compared to the South Pole, which places the sun lower in the noontime sky and makes the day shorter than it is in summer, said Jim Lattis, director of UW Space Place, an outreach program of the UW-Madison astronomy department.
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