do stars move during the night?

Answer 1

All the stars are in motion. They are so far away their positions appear to change very little with respect to one another.

Our own sun takes 200 million years to revolve around the core of our Milky Way Galaxy. As it moves around, it also drifts back and forth through the plane of the galaxy, much like a sine wave.

The earth also rotates, which makes the stars appear to move from one horizon to the next. In a telescope with the tracking turned off you can notice this motion quite readily. Aim the telescope at some bright star. The closer to the ecliptic, the faster the star will drift through the eye piece.

The north star (Polaris) will not move very much at all in your telescope throughout the day. Where I live it always remains about 50º above the horizon. But even this star is moving, and in less than a million years from now will not be the star closest to earth's north pole. (Both because it and our sun are moving relative to one another).

Answer 2

The stars are moving all the time, you just can't perceive that movement because they are so far away. for example the stars of the Pleiades (m45) are approx 100 million years old and moving at about 7 miles a second (11 kilometers ps). You cannot see this movement due to the fact that it is to far away, however the slow drift of the stars that you do see at night is half the speed of a clock, and is the direct result of the rotation of the earth as it turns underneath the heavens. above.

Answer 3

Stars rise and set just like the Sun and Moon. Of course this is an illusion caused by the rotation of the Earth. But the stars do move through space too. They even move at high speeds, like 100,000 MPH. But they are so far away that they do not seem to move fast, just like the airliner flying over at 500 MPH seems to be going quite slow. Stars change position in the sky, but not fast enough to notice any movement in times as short as a human lifetime, unless you take VERY careful measurements with precision instruments.

Answer 4

All stars are moving through the galaxy, but the motion that we see here on Earth is due to the Earth's rotation. The stars appear to move across the sky at night because Earth is rotating towards the star's direction.

Answer 5

Stars move across the night sky due to Earth's rotation. Individual stars also move on their own through space, but because they're so far away the naked eye doesn't notice it. Only long observations with telescopes and precise measurements can detect the space motion of stars.

Answer 6

Not exactly. Stars are fixed (meaning they don't move), but the Earth rotates on its axis. The stars appear to spin, except for the pole star (North Star) which is in line with the Earth's axis. The stars look to be spinning around Polaris

Answer 7

Yes stars move suring the night because the earht is always moving even when you don't think it is. Even in the winter the stars aren moving they always move because of the earths rotation.

Answer 8

All stars move day and night.
They are so far away that only the relative motion of the turning of the earth is noticeable.

Answer 9

For those that do, it can be anytime, not just during the 'night' that planet Earth experience. Earth experiences daytime when that part of it faces the sun. Btw, Sun is also a star. In fact, it is an averrage sized one. There are much bigger stars than the sun or our solar system that are a few thousand times brighter.

Answer 10

It depends on what course you are facing. In the northern hemisphere, they show up to circle the north celestial pole in a counter-clockwise path. For the most phase we think of them as rising within the east and setting in the west, but if you face north you'll see stars relocating west-to-east.