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
The same reason a laser pointer doesn’t leave a big line on the wall when you turn it slowly in your hand. The photons are moving at light speed one by one. By the time the star has moved in the sky there are no photons coming from the old spot anymore.
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