We are a ball of rock spinning around the sun in a galaxy that is also rotating and moving through space. How is it that we still see the same constellations as seafarers thousands of years ago considering all of this movement?
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Space is unimagably vast. Stars are really, really, really far away. The stars do move over time, but the earth’s motion (angle of arc-trigonometry) is miniscule over the distances involved.
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