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- The stars move parallel to each other and the Celestial Equator. Since the Celestial Equator is on the Horizon, each star has constant altitude. No star rises or sets; all stars are circumpolar.
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The Sky and Stars Since there are 360 degrees in a circle and 365 days in the year, the Sun would appear to move about one degree against that star background each day, and it would appear to move eastward, bringing it to its mid-day position in our sky about 4 sidereal minutes later each day.
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- The spiral regions rotate about as half as fast as the stars move. Stars behind the region of greater gravity are pulled forward into the region and speed up. Stars leaving the region of greater gravity are pulled backward and slow down. Gas entering spiral wave is compressed.
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Circumpolar stars never rise or set Circumpolar stars always reside above the horizon, and for that reason, never rise or set. All the stars at the Earth’s North and South Poles are circumpolar. Meanwhile, no star is circumpolar at the Earth’s equator. Anyplace else has some circumpolar stars, and some stars that rise and set daily. The closer you are to either the North or South Pole, the greater the circle of circumpolar stars, and the closer you are to the equator, the smaller.
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- Space and celestial bodies make up the Universe. A celestial body undergoes rotation, and may also undergo revolution. Stars are huge balls of burning gases, mostly hydrogen and helium, like our Sun. Patterns of stars are called constellations, like the Big Dipper and the Orion. Planets revolve around stars. Satellites revolve around planets.
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Nursing home care in the United States The services nursing homes offer vary from facility to facility. Services often include: 1  Room and board. 2  Monitoring of medication. 3  Personal care (including dressing, bathing, and toilet assistance). 4  24-hour emergency care. 5  Social and recreational activities.
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Stars Stars are the most widely recognized astronomical objects, and represent the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies. The age, distribution, and composition of the stars in a galaxy trace the history, dynamics, and evolution of that galaxy.oday, we understand that they are in fact, very old stars-white dwarfs. If a white dwarf is close enough to a companion star, its gravity may drag matter-mostly hydrogen-from the outer layers of that star onto itself, building up its surface layer.
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Brittle Stars of the Sea Brittle Star Locomotion. Brittle stars don't move using tube feet like sea stars and urchins do - they move by wriggling their arms. Brittle stars are a radially symmetrical animal, but they can move like a bilaterally symmetrical animal (e.g., like a human or mammal).
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- WHY DO STARS APPEAR TO MOVE ACROSS THE NIGHT SKY. There are actually two different reasons why stars appear to move across our sky. The first is because the Earth is spinning and second because the Earth itself is moving around the Sun.
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Science Chapter 6 PLANETS-is a very large round object that moves around a star. Each planet orbits in a clear path. DWARF planets- are small round objects that move around the sun. They do not obit in a clear path ASTERIOD-a rocky object that orbits around the sun but too small to be considered a planet or even dwarf planet.
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Stars Stars are born within the clouds of dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. A familiar example of such as a dust cloud is the Orion Nebula. Turbulence deep within these clouds gives rise to knots with sufficient mass that the gas and dust can begin to collapse under its own gravitational attraction.
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Do Stars Move? The same thing happens when the Earth moves around in its orbit. Some of the closer stars can be seen moving back and forth across the background. We call this effect parallax and we can use it for stars that are as far away as about 100 light-years. We can actually calculate their distance using some geometry.
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- The stars move across the sky a little faster than the sun. This difference arises because the stars appear to move only because of Earth’s rotation, while the sun also appears to move because the Earth goes around the sun once a year.
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- Objects such as stars appear to move across the sky at night because Earth spins on its axis. This is the same reason that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Stars that are low in the east when the night begins are high in the sky halfway through the night and low in the west by daybreak the next day.
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General Astronomy/Print version The Constellations of the Zodiac. The Zodiac is the name of the virtual belt in which the planets, Sun, and Moon appear to move about the sky. In reality, the planets and their respective moons (most of them anyway) orbit the Sun about the same plane.
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- Every direction on the Horizon is South, and the stars move to the right or West while the Earth moves under them, to the East. At the South Pole every direction on the Horizon is North, and the stars move to the left or West while the Earth moves under them, to the East.
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How to Make a Star Wheel the Simple Way Now the stars above the map's horizon should match the real stars in front of you. Remember that star patterns will look much larger in the sky than they do on the map. The farther up from the edge of the oval the stars appear, the higher up they'll be shining in your sky. Stars in the center of the oval will appear directly overhead. If you'd like a more visual guide, watch our video on how to use a star wheel.
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Download the Starfish Facts and Worksheets Starfish are echinoderms (spiny skinned sea urchins). They are also known as sea stars and are not really fish despite the name been given to them. Starfish cannot swim, and they do not use gills to breathe. For more information on these interesting sea urchins, see the fact sheet below. All echinoderms have five-point radial symmetry, which means that their body plan has five sections arranged around a central disk. 2  Starfish are found in the deep blue sea of the ocean and shallow water as well.
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Bat star Bat stars come in a wide variety of solid and mottled colors, including red, orange, yellow, brown, green and purple. They have webbing between their short, triangular arms, which gives them a batlike look. Normally, bat stars have five arms, but they occasionally have as many as nine arms. Gill-like structures on a sea star's back, which aid with breathing, give its skin a fuzzy appearance. Most sea stars have pincers (pedicellariae) that remove debris from the skin gills, but bat stars have no pincers and are free of debris.
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Ecliptic traces the sunâs path Star trails made by leaving the camera shutter open during the night. During the night, we cannot see the Sun. But the Earth is still spinning on its axis. This means that the stars appear to move from east to west in the sky, just as the Sun does in the day. 1  Page. 2  1. 3  2. 4  3.
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Mysterious object from deep space has entered the solar system Most objects orbiting our Sun do so along a common plane: the planets, dwarf planets and asteroids mostly swing around in roughly the same way. This one appears to have come down on the plane from 122 degrees, from the direction of the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra.
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- 1 The planets move slowly enough that their positions change only slightly from night to night. They therefore rise in the east and set in the west as part of the sky's diurnal motion. 2  Relative to the stars, however, the planets generally move from west to east , like the Sun and Moon.
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Do Stars Move? Star Trails by Cory Schmitz. 1  Stars that are close to the Earth’s axis of rotation — what we call the north and the south pole — rotate around the poles. 2  If the pole’s location is far enough above the horizon, some stars never set.
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Common Sea Star Other Facts: 1  Sea stars are more commonly referred to as starfish. 2  They are related to sea cucumbers: both are echinoderms, which means “spiny-skinned.” All echinoderms have five-part radial symmetry. 3  An active sea star can travel one mile in about a week. 4  If a sea star loses an arm, it can quickly grow a new one.
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Astronomy 1010 Final Stars in the disk orbit in roughly circular paths that all go in the same direction in nearly the same plane and then there are stars in the bulge and halo that soar above and below the disk on randomly oriented orbits. A star that is too far above the disk is pulled back into the disk by gravity.
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Lists of stars by constellation The only star that does not belong to a constellation is the Sun. The Sun travels through the 13 constellations along the ecliptic, the 12 of the Zodiac and Ophiuchus.Among the remaining stars, the nearer ones exhibit proper motion, so it is only a matter of time before some of them cross a constellation boundary and switch constellations as a consequence.mong the remaining stars, the nearer ones exhibit proper motion, so it is only a matter of time before some of them cross a constellation boundary and switch constellations as a consequence.