axis

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Nuclear control had been built over decades around a Moscow-Washington axis, but China's growing power and rapid technological advances have shifted the international playing field, which is simultaneously increasingly strained.

From Barron's

High-eccentricity migration can tilt a planet's orbital axis compared with the rotational axis of its star, creating a detectable misalignment.

From Science Daily

We have solstices because the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.5 degrees, which affects which part of the planet's surface the Sun is directly overhead at any given time.

From BBC

Their analysis showed that the star's rotation axis and the planet's orbital axis differ by roughly 62°, meaning TOI-3884 hosts a significantly tilted planetary orbit.

From Science Daily

We have solstices because the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.5 degrees, which affects which part of the planet's surface the sun is directly overhead at any given time.

From BBC