Eli5: If we are moving trough the galaxy, how come we see the same stars in the sky every night?

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Our entire solarsystem is moving through space yet the same constellations cover our skies every night. Do these stars move with us or are they far away enough that they their movement isnt noticable to us and they look stagnant even though everything is moving?

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The galaxy is huge, we really aren’t covering that much “ground”.

The nearby stars also move with us, while the distant ones are so far away that they don’t really move much even if we cross the whole galaxy. Only with close attention to detail do we notice any change, and that change is mostly the movement of the near stars compared to the far ones.

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