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The earth's orbit is elliptical. However the orbit is much closer to a circle than to an ellipse (or at least the image that comes to mind when you say ellipse).

This image is taken from the wikipedia article mentioned below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EarthsOrbit_en.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit



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