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How many degrees do the stars move around polaris in 3 hours?
45 degrees
How does Polaris rule support the shape of the earth?
the degree of polaris on the horizon is your latitude. Shows the curvature of the earth. When the degree of polaris is 1 degree greater, you move the some distance if you move another degree. Shows how everything is equally distant from the center.
Why do constellations appear to revolve around the Pole star?
This is because the Pole Star (i.e. Polaris, in the Northern hemisphere) is within a degree of the Earth's centre of rotation. That is, the north pole is in line with this particular star. Thus, as the Earth rotates, Polaris does not appear to move in the sky, and the rest of the stars appear to revolve around it.
What causes the circumpolar stars to appear to move around polaris?
The apparent daily movement of the stars in the sky is a reflection of Earth's rotation. Earth rotates around its axis; as a reflection of this, the entire sky rotates around an "axis", which is simply the extension of Earth's axis. By chance, the star Polaris is almost exactly on the line of the Earth's axis, extended into space. So, as the Earth rotates the stars appear to rotate around Polaris. Circumpolar stars never go below the observer's horizon, so they just seem to go in circles around Polaris.
Why does polaris not move if earth rotates around sun?
it does move
How do the stars appear to move near Polaris?
Polaris traces out a circle with a diameter of 1.5 degrees above the North Pole. Other nearby stars trace out larger circles.
How many degrees do the stars move around Polaris at night?
The answer depends on how long the night is. With respect to distant stars the earth rotates once in every 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds. Over that period, the stars will move through 360 degrees.
Stars appear to rotate about a point in the sky Which direction does this point lie in?
No. The earth rotates, not the stars. yelp! stars rotate around the earth gravaltational pull receptic system. The answer to this question is impossible to find because you don't rotate around objects, you revolve around them. So a better question would be "Do stars revolve around the Earth?" The answer to that question is no. Now stars do rotate, but most of them don't revolve around anything. (Some revolve around other stars.)
Why is polaris famous?
Polaris, also called the North Star, is just about in line with the north pole and so does not appear to move across the sky as other stars do.
What causes the stars to appear to make one complete circle around polaris every 24 hours?
The stars all rotate about an imaginary axis line that goes through the poles of the earth. From our veiw point, the fixed stars will move across the sky, corresponding to this spin. The polaris star is almost on this imaginary axis line - if you were to carry on extending it out to this star.
Why do all stars appear to move except the pole star?
Those stars except Polaris or the North Pole stars really orbit the Milky Way Galaxy but not Outside
The constellation that contains the polestar?
The pole star, Polaris, is at the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor).
