2007-04-29 14:52:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
At one time, the moon was right next to us and looked enormous. It gets farther away by about an inch a year.
2007-04-29 15:00:41 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the position of the earth has changed the stars are not in the same place as it was years ago. It may be why the Mayans have a month and day and year end in there calendar that everyone is talking more about now then when it was told to the public years ago. We know that the earth is tilting more now then before for that reason not many answers are out there for. So the stars now are in different places cause we (the Earth) is moving.
2007-04-29 22:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by Arizona Chick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The objects we see in the night sky are all moving in relation to us in some way. The distances being so great for most objects that the motion is very small in the span of a human lifetime. However, in a million years there would be noticeable differences. So, the answer to your question is No, it would not look the same. The stars would be in different positions from where they are now.
2007-04-29 22:01:58 · answer #3 · answered by JimGeek 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sky goes through many changes as millions of years transpire. take for instance that 4,000 years ago due to processional wobble, the Northern pole star was Thuban in the Constellation of Draco. As far as a million years ago, such nebulas as the Crab Nebula (M1) did not exist, and most assuredly the great Orion Nebula (M42) appeared much differently
2007-05-03 21:30:23 · answer #4 · answered by hilltopobservatory 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks almost exactly the same, except none of the constellations will be the same. The stars will all have moved.
Everything else - the sun, the moon, the other planets, comets, remote galaxies, will look and move almost exactly the same as they do now. Except maybe better, because there won't be any light-pollution from the city where you live.
2007-04-29 21:58:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stars are not stationary; they move. But they are so far away that it takes many years for them to move enough to notice. A million years is long enough for many of them to move far enough to notice, so the constellations would be different. Other than that, it would have looked pretty much the same. Lots of stars.
2007-04-29 22:06:42 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. the stars that you are looking at are old. some dont exsist any more becaus eth elight takes millions of years to get here... The wer in a diffrent location a milion years ago because of there orbits in relation to earth
2007-04-29 22:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A million years is not a lot of time, universally speaking. So not much different - not that the average person would notice.
2007-04-29 21:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that is a very good ? why dont you ask regis from regis and kelly show he was alive then
2007-04-29 21:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by adan s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋