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Viewed from anywhere in the USA, the Big Dipper makes a complete revolution

around the North Star ... like the hands of a clock ... every day.

On the scale of a year, it reaches any certain position about 4 minutes earlier

every night, so that in the course of a year, it reaches that position 24 hours

earlier than it did 365 nights before.

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