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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The galaxy would take hundreds of thousands of years to make a full rotation, and figure that even then the farther out stars are not going to change a whole lot relative to each other. The <10k years of written history we have would only count for a few degrees of rotation, and even less of a shift between individual stars.
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