Star Trails: A Weekly Astronomy Podcast · Single Malt Sky
Choreography of the Cosmos: Why the Sky Never Stands Still
·22 min·2 clips
You're moving at over a million miles per hour just by standing still, thanks to Earth's spin, orbit, and the Milky Way's journey.
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A calm, clear lesson in why the sky only seems still.
Star Trails makes a clear, patient case that the night sky is always in motion, not fixed above us. Drew walks through Earth's spin and orbit, then moves into seasonal constellations, retrograde motion, precession, and the Moon-linked wobble called nutation.
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