why does the night sky not look like a long exposure camera shot if the earth is spinning and the light from distant stars takes so long to get here?
In: Planetary Science
Our eyes work similar to animation. We are seeing one frame at a time at a rate of around 30 frames per second. In everyday life, things move fast enough that those individual still frames in rapid succession appear to us as movement.
When shooting a long exposure on a camera, it is one frame that lasts anywhere from minutes to hours. It would be similar to taking all the frames of a movie and showing them simultaneously. It would just look like a blur.
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