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

Have you ever been on an aeroplane? They move extremely fast, then why don’t street lights from a city down there look like blurred lines?

The city and its lights are far away so it’s in our line of sight for a while and not zooming past our eyes. Stars are Extremely far away and the earth is huge.

For example you might see lights as a blurred line when the plane is taking off because the lights are zooming past very quickly as they are very close