eli5: If the sun revolves around the galaxy, why do we still see the same constellation that was discovered by the Romans (probably 1000s of years ago). surely they should have been scattered by now due to revolution of the sun combined with the revolution of the earth around with sun

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Answer 1

that’s a bit like asking “why hasn’t the season changed in the last ten minutes even though the earth has been orbiting the sun for that whole time?”

the sheer scale of the galaxy is incomprehensibly large. 5000 years is nothing on that scale, the stars have all barely had a chance to move