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Stellar Motions

May 31, 2020August 10, 2020 J

What is moving? The Stars or the Earth?

Stars appear to rotate around a point in the upper left corner of this time lapse image taken from a campsite in Arizona's White Mountains. You probably know that astronomers in Ancient Greece thought that the stars spun around a fixed, immovable Earth, but that we now know that the Earth moves - rotating around … Continue reading What is moving? The Stars or the Earth?

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