For example ive been seeing the same star in the same place for the past 7 years everytime I look outside of my rooms window at nite , howwwww? I'm puzzled!! We're supposes to be spinning !?!?!?!?
daniel g
Compare your visible stars every hour. Different huh.
every 86 400.002 seconds the stars will be in the very same place.
In truth, they move about even more, but unnoticeable to a casual observer.
Look at the north star, Polaris, hardly visible movement, but a time laps photo, you see the rotation of stars around Polaris:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/star-trails-roatating-around-north-star-night-picture-id200356092-001?s=612x612
Jeffrey K
The only star that stays in the same spot in the sky is the north star, Polaris. This is because it is directly above the earth's axis of spin. All other stars and planets move across the sky during the night because we are spinning.
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They don't. You're imagining it. The only one that doesn't move is Polaris. All the rest move round it once every 24 hours.
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The Stars you see at night move across the sky slowly as the World Turns
They are at such vast distances away, they have no Apparent movement
Everything moves, Even our Sun through the Saggitarius Arm of the Milky way and around the centre of the same
All Stars move at certain Vectors and Velocities
Apparent Movement is the measure of their change of position to our view over time
Distance makes the Parallax so tiny, they hardly appear to move at all
Even though they could be going at 100's of thousands mph
They could also be moving towards us or moving Away
Stars close to the Central Supermassive Black Hole Saggitarius AB are whizzing around it in orbits at tremendous Velocities
I sometimes wonder if you can see something that is actually travelling at the Speed of Light
Say Big and Bright and in the outer reaches of our Universe
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The stars are so far away that from our perspective they seem to remain in the same place. For us to see the change in the stars' location we would have to live for thousands of years. As an example the constellation we know as Ursa Major would seem to have a very different configuration to those who lived in the Stone Age. In about 7000 years Ursa Major will be unrecognisable as a bear.