Space

I have always admired the night sky, especially on a hot summer night when the sky reveals its most beautiful face adorned with the infinite dots of gentle illumination that light up the sky. That is the “star.” No matter how old, millions or billions of years, they are all born in nebulae, the clouds of dust, and mostly hydrogen gas. Looking at the sky, have you ever wondered if they ever move? We’ve all learned that the stars rise and set each night, but that’s just Earth’s rotation. The star never moved. What about actual movement across the vast canvas of space? Despite appearances, stars are constantly on the

We all love time-lapse videos of the stars moving across the sky, but really, we are the ones who are tumbling through the universe on a giant wet rock vehicle called Earth, with a windshield called the sky. As viewed from above the North Pole, we spin counterclockwise; west chases east. I always remember this by thinking of the US as a weird-maned animal with Texas and Florida legs running forward. But we don’t just spin, we also revolve around the Sun on a plane tilted 23.4 degrees relative to our spin. It’s kind of nauseating at this scale. But from this perspective, we can see that the Sun rising