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All the motions and changes you see are a result of four simple facts: 1.The Earth is spinning on its axis, one turn every 24 hours. 2.The Moon is orbiting around the Earth, one orbit every 27.3 days. 3.The Earth and all the other planets are orbiting the Sun, all in the same direction, and all in roughly the same plane (i.e. it's like they are all laid out on a large dinner plate with the Sun at the centre). The outer planets orbit more slowly than the inner planets. 4. The stars are stationary. (They do, in fact, move very quickly. But they are so far away that the motion appears to us to be too slow to perceive without special instruments.)

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