How can the earth be at a 23.5° angle if it’s also close to a perfect sphere?

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How can there be an angle if earth is a sphere. A perfect ball doesn’t have a north does it.

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The earth is a perfect sphere, but it is also spinning like a top. The spin of the earth is not perfectly vertical – it’s like a spinning top that is leaning over, and the amount the earth “leans over” on its spin, is 23 degrees off from perfectly vertical.