When it’s daytime the sun is facing earth. Earth is where we live. The earth takes 24 hours to make one complete turn or rotation. We have day and night because earth rotates. The earth spins on its axis which is an imaginary line passing through the north pole and the south pole. The earth spins slowly all the time, but we don’t feel any movement because it turns smoothly and at the same speed. To see which parts of the Earth are in the daylight and which parts are observing darkness, click here! Did you know the sun is more than 300,000 times bigger than earth over one million earths could fit inside the sun. and the temperature inside the sun can reach 15 million degrees celsius. Eventually the sun will consume the earth. The earth is constantly spinning. The line between day and night is always moving around the planet. The sun is a star at the center of our solar system. the sun is almost a perfect sphere. Did you know that the sun is 93 miles away from earth? The sun is by far largest object in the solar system too. It takes light 200,000 years to escape from the sun but only 8 minutes to reach earth to.