ecliptic

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More recently, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has been gradually moving out of the ecliptic plane and is expected to reach latitudes of around 34° in a few years.

From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025

All the planets orbit roughly along the same plane, known as an ecliptic plane, or arc across the sky if you are viewing it edge-on, according to NASA.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

Conjunctions occur frequently in our solar system because "the planets orbit around the Sun in approximately the same plane - the ecliptic plane - and thus trace similar paths across our sky", according to Nasa.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023

As the moon orbits Earth every 29 days, it makes a big circle around the sky, crossing the ecliptic twice.

From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2022

The planet has a few degrees of tilt to the plane of the ecliptic, not enough to make an appreciable seasonal difference in low latitudes.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin