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Stars do not move. The Earth rotates on its axis, which gives the effect of the stars moving. In fact, the stars are moving, but are too far away for our eyes to realize.
The short answer is, they stay where they are and we sit on the Earth and go round. The effect is that the stars appear to rise in the eastern half of the sky and set in the western half, as the Earth rotates.

In the northern hemisphere the stars appear to move left to right, while in the Southern Hemisphere they move right to left. But they still rise in the east and set in the west.

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