Questions tagged [movement]
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Movement of stars over long periods of time
When the Great Pyramid was built, one long sloping tunnel was aimed at a particular star, which could be seen by a person at the bottom of that tunnel on just one night of the year. Today that star is ...
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Is our Solar System moving independently through our galaxy?
I would like know if our Solar System is moving independently through our galaxy or is stuck on the Orion Arm which is revolving around our galaxy? Is our solar system an onboard passenger of the ...
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What would happen if you jumped out of a moving spacecraft? [closed]
I've watched a film where one of the characters claimed to have rapidly disembarked a moving spacecraft during a 5g burn (?!) and immediately wondered how he survived.
For example, you're on a ...
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Multiple star-like looking objects moving across the sky [duplicate]
I know this question has been asked before, and not only on this resource. But none of the answers look satisfactory to my case.
So yesterday shortly after dusk, rouhgly around 18 UTC (local 21PM, I ...
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How Does Earth Move In Relation To The Stars
In my simulation, I have stars scattered around Earth, all stars are the same distance from the center of the Earth and positioned based on their right ascension and declination like so:
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How do galaxies move in space?
Kind of like a shower thought just occurred to me. We've all seen lots of animation about spiral galaxies, how they crash... in virtually all of them, I recall they move in a frisbee way, that is ...
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Does the sun cross other spiral arms in its movement around the galaxy's center?
Today, Ansa.it released an article that states:
[...]. In questo suo peregrinare galattico, il Sole ha attraversato anche
i due bracci della Via Lattea Perseo e Centauro. "Sono zone di alta
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Which star / galaxy is moving away from us the fastest?
I know that we have measured the rate a lot of stars and galaxies move away from us using the doppler shift, and I know that the further a star / galaxy is the faster they accelerate away from us due ...
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Does the sun have a vertical movment?
As the Sun moves along with the planets does the sun exhibit vertical movement? That is, does it traverse in different planes?
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How the Galactic objects are moving? [duplicate]
We know that the Galaxies are moving very fast, not only the Galaxies other known and unknown objects in the universe, are moving. But when it was started where is the starting point, and how it move ...
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Fast moving bright star with eliptic course, instant stop [duplicate]
Around 13 years ago I saw fast moving bright star with eliptic course which crossed half a sky in 1-2 sec and stopped instantly like it was a smashed like a bug, and didn't move for a while few ...
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Our Solar System’s interstellar movement in relation to the Alpha Centauri System
Our solar system is moving at approx. 52,000 mph, so where is the Alpha Centauri system, which is assumed to be also moving through interstellar space at a similar velocity since it is part of our ...
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Almost unseeable light moving over nightsky. What is it? [duplicate]
Sometimes when I look up at the sky at night, I can see something moving. It’s so small that I barely can see it, but I can’t see it when I look directly at it. I need to look beside it to see it. It ...
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It moved in a straight line with sparkling track.What could it be? [closed]
Today I saw something that passed like a jet. But am sure it's not so because jet will leave a long track of its passage. It moved in a straight line with sparkling track and what I saw was observed ...
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What is the name of a device for detecting moving objects? [duplicate]
A while ago I saw a report on TV, where an astronomer described a device that was used for detecting movement of stellar objects (mainly asteroids, I think) before the age of computers. In order to ...
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