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What is the star that is directly in line with the axis of the Earth?
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What stars does not move in the night sky because it is directly over the Earth's axis of rotation?
Which following stars . . you didn't give any names :) But the Pole star is almost in line with the Earth's north and south poles, less than 1 degree off.
What is the projections of Earth's rotational axis on the sky?
The celestial axis. It is the point around which all stars in the sky travel. Polaris, the North Star, lies approximately on this line
What star does not change its position with the seasons?
The bright star Polaris in approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation and therefore does not change its seeming position when seen from the Earth, no matter the time of day or the time of year. It is always towards North. When you stand at the North Pole, the star will be approximately directly overhead.There is no similar, bright pole star for the southern hemisphere.
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 does the north star appear to stay still in the night sky?
The NorthStar(Polaris) isthe star that never moves in the sky asEarth rotates.Actually, it does move a little bit, because it's notexactly over the North pole.
What is a polaries star?
Polaris is a star which is directly above the North Pole and therefore appears to be stationary as the Earth rotates on its axis.
What is the name of the fixed star that line up with the north pole of earth's axis?
It is called Zenith.
What stars does not move in the night sky because it is directly over the Earth's axis of rotation?
Which following stars . . you didn't give any names :) But the Pole star is almost in line with the Earth's north and south poles, less than 1 degree off.
What is the projections of Earth's rotational axis on the sky?
The celestial axis. It is the point around which all stars in the sky travel. Polaris, the North Star, lies approximately on this line
Towards which star does the earth's axis appear to be tilted?
The north star
Does constellation Orion rotate about the pole star?
All the constellations appear to rotate round the pole star because the pole star is in line with the axis that the Earth rotates around with us on board.
How does the big dipper rotate around the north star?
Not just the big dipper but all of the stars appear to rotate around the North Star because Earth is rotating. The North Star does not appear to move because it is in line with Earth's axis of rotation.
Is the earth's atmosphere heated directly by a planet or a star?
Earth is heated by the sun, which is a star.
What is the nothern star?
The Northern Star is also known as Polaris. This is the star that the Earth's axis of rotation approximately points to.
Why does the pole star appers stationary?
As the earth revolves in its orbit around the sun, it acts like a gigantic gyroscope. The tilt in the pole is always oriented (with some complex variations that can't be covered here) toward the pole star. The star is so far away that the width of earth's orbit doesn't have a great effect on the star's position in our sky. The pole star does appear to move a little. It is very close to the celestial position of the north pole, but it is not exactly on the point.
What is the location of the north star?
The North Star, Polaris, is a fairly ordinary F7 star about 430 light years away. It is not particularly bright. Its importance lies in its apparent position directly (well, ALMOST directly) above the Earth's North Pole. This position is entirely coincidental, since all of the stars have their own proper motions, and the Earth itself "wobbles" - or precesses - on its axis with a period of 25,800 years.
What star does not change its position with the seasons?
The bright star Polaris in approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation and therefore does not change its seeming position when seen from the Earth, no matter the time of day or the time of year. It is always towards North. When you stand at the North Pole, the star will be approximately directly overhead.There is no similar, bright pole star for the southern hemisphere.
