eli5: if everything in the universe is constantly revolving at insane speeds, why are the constellations and star patterns the same all the time?
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They are just incredibly incredibly far away, like when you look out of car the things right next to the road move really fast, the trees in the background move slowly and the horizon even slower, the stars are so far that no matter how fast you go, they look like they are still
However over millennia constellations do shift slightly, and there is some impact on human history, like how constellations changed from the Egyptians
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