The “sun path” (the line that the sun travels across the sky from sunrise to sunset) is essentially the same as a “star path”, or a moon path, or a planet path. While the relative positions of things vary a little from day to day, you can essentially think of everything being fixed to the “celestial sphere” which is a way of visualizing the stars and planets as being painted on the inside of a far-away sphere that the Earth is in the center of.
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