When you are driving down a long highway the moon appears in the same spot in the sky even thou you have driven many miles. It’s like the moon is fixed in the sky from your perspective.
But the moon is about 350k km away and you have only travelled say 100 km, it’s the same idea for why the stars appear fixed for thousands of years while we spiral through the galaxy.
Stars are billions of km away and we a travelling around 2 million km/h.
Sure but those stars are also travelling, and infact, just because a few stars are in a single constellation does not mean those stars are physically near each other. Not to mention the fact that different parts of the galaxy are moving faster than others (faster towards the spiral tips).
It is therefore quite fucking unbelievable that Orion’s Belt has the exact same proportions as when the Egyptians made the great pyramid complex a minimum of 5,000 years ago.
When you are driving down a long highway the moon appears in the same spot in the sky even thou you have driven many miles. It’s like the moon is fixed in the sky from your perspective. But the moon is about 350k km away and you have only travelled say 100 km, it’s the same idea for why the stars appear fixed for thousands of years while we spiral through the galaxy.
Stars are billions of km away and we a travelling around 2 million km/h.
Sure but those stars are also travelling, and infact, just because a few stars are in a single constellation does not mean those stars are physically near each other. Not to mention the fact that different parts of the galaxy are moving faster than others (faster towards the spiral tips).
It is therefore quite fucking unbelievable that Orion’s Belt has the exact same proportions as when the Egyptians made the great pyramid complex a minimum of 5,000 years ago.