If our planet is rotating and shooting through space, why do we see stars as dots of light instead of blurred lines across the sky?

Question

I’m sitting here trying to sleep and this is keeping me awake.

In: Physics

Answer 1

An example:

You’re in a car going very fast 100km per hour, zooming past each street light on your road: you might see a blur of those lights zipping past. But looking far into the distance you can see street lights from a different highway almost stationary moving past u much slower, they just stay in your line of sight for much longer because those lights are much further away.

This is Similar to stars.

Also the earth isn’t moving that fast relative to the size of our galaxy or even solar system and neighbouring stars.