Why does the moon move further across the sky every day?

Question

I’m talking about how one night it will be in one spot in the sky, and the next night at the same time it will be to the side of where it was the day before.

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It’s orbiting very close to us so it seems to move relatively quickly against the background of stars. It moves its own width every hour in front of the stars. Actually the stars go around the sky fastest, returning to the same position every 23h56m. The sun comes next at 24h00m and the moon’s at 24h50m. So, in some ways, the moon is actually the slowest-moving object in the sky.