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No matter where Earth is in its orbit, its geographic north pole is always pointing toward Polaris, also known as the North Star or the Pole Star. However, different stars serve as the Pole Star in different centuries or millennia because the direction of Earth's tilt rotates at the rate of one cycle every 25,800 years.

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