Almost nothing was different, except our understanding of things. The stars have been shining for millions or billions of years; all the planets have been pretty much just where they are for about 4 billion years or more.
"Ancient" times in our human history is anything more than 2000 years ago.
Two reasons. (1) Such planets are very dim, from our point of view. Some of the planets in our own Solar System look roughly as bright as the brightest stars; now imagine them at least 100,000 times farther - that would make them 10 billion times dimmer, from our point of view. (2) Such planets are very close to their star - once again, from our point of view, i.e., considering the angular distance.
Mars has no fixed relationship to Orion, or to any other stars. In ancient times, Mars, Venus and Jupiter were called "planets", from the Greek word for "wanderer"; the planets wander across the fixed stars, which do not change their relationships. (They actually do, but so slowly that a lifetime isn't enough to see the changes.) Here in January, 2010, Mars appears near Orion in the evening sky, but as the Earth speeds past Mars in its orbit, Mars appears to move "retrograde" - the reverse of its normal path across the sky. By next month, it will have moved past Orion and will rise earlier and earlier each day.
night sky myths are myths about stars, constellations and more. In ancient times astronomers looked in the sky to see patterns but some might not have being real stars, it could have been just a bright light BY; Tobi
Not in this times but yes in ancient times
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planets, meaning the wanderers.
The inner planets have been known about since ancient times. Astronomers in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Persia all would have studied the skies and noticed the inner planets. The planets, of course, are completely different to stars, as stars are 'fixed' in the sky (as we look at them, anyway), while planets seem to meander around going nowhere in particular. The odd behaviour led astronomers to attribute this to godly doings...
There are seven of them in our solar system. They all travel in a plane close to the plane the Moon travels in. Different times of the year, has different planets "near the Moon".
Many of the constellations are pretty much the same today as they were in ancient Greece. Pegasus, Hercules, and Orion are examples, as are the signs of the Zodiac. The planets have ancient Roman names. Very few of the stars have ancient European names, as astronomy of ancient times was kept alive by Arabs, who used their own names for the stars.
First of all, planets are way smaller than stars, stars are probably 10-1000's of times bigger than plants. Another thing is stars produce nuclear energy in their core so they burn and give of heat, which by far planets don't give off. The third thing is Stars have more gravity than planets so they make smaller bodies orbit around them. Planets are dark balls of rock and gas that orbit a star and stars are giant balls of hot gases that makes its own light and heat
No, planets are not stars. Stars are huge balls of burning gas, planets are not. At certain times, there are 5 planets that are visible with the naked eye in the night sky. Some of these are similar to stars but much closer. They are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. See the related link for more information.
The moon is many times closer to the Earth than the stars are.
Mainly in that they have a smaller mass. To be a "star", an object would need to be able to start hydrogen fusion. This requires a certain amount of mass and pressure at the core - which in turn require a certain minimum mass.
The stars and constellations helped them navigate.
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The planets are closer. (They all move - and differently.)
Galileo was the first to study the sky with a telescope, record the results, and draw scientific conclusions. Before that, however, there were many people who studied the planets, and in ancient times there was a model explaining how the planets move among the stars, devised by Ptolemy.