Why is the North Star Always in the Same Place?
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Have you ever wondered why the north star always points to North? Why it always stays in the same location? It seems arbitrary that Polaris, the North Star should be stationary in the sky and be able to navigate us to the four cardinal directions. This video explores how and why Polaris came to be the way it is.
Fun Fact: The North Star was first catalogued in the year 169 AD, but because the Earth precesses around its axis over long periods of time, it couldn't be used as a pole star for navigation to the North until around 1200 AD.
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But the galaxy drifts across space so how is the North Star still in the same place
Space is fake thats how
I wanna know this too.
We have inherited lies
You have to consider the scale of things. Imagine you are driving down the street and you look to your left and see the sun. The sun appears to be flowing you however it is actually just so far away that your movement is not very significant in comparison to the suns location. Same thing goes for Polaris. It is so far away that it always appears to be in the same spot because the movement of the earth is not enough to shift the position of the star.
@@Elbrusho I hear that said a lot, but no one seems to want to prove it with a scaled demonstration in real life. I don’t believe it til I see it.
Why do we see the same stars and constellations every night if we are rotating and revolving?
Good question.
Actually they change
And following the sun through space
YESSSSS! This has been my question for years and no one can give me an answer.
This would depend greatly on where you live. If you live quite high in the northern hemisphere, all year round you will see the same stars in the northern direction, HOWEVER, they will be in a different position then they were 6 months ago. Take a photo of a constellation that's in the northern sky, and look at that photo in 6 months and compare it to what you see with your naked eye or take a photo again in the exact same spot and compare them. Constellations further south of you will not be visible for 6 months of the year though as they would indeed be facing the other direction, or if you're a long way north they may appear much closer to the horizon rather than straight up
I'm guessing because the truth is we live on a non rotational plane.
How are all the stars in our visible view been the same for thousands of years when apparently they are all expanding with the universe away from each other?
On our scale, the universe expands very very slowly. Something like 99% of all the stars we see in the sky are located in the 1% of the Milky Way galaxy close to us. And the Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies. It’s like we could only see 1 leaf in the entire Amazon rainforest. So at our minute scale, the expansion goes unnoticed by the naked eye even after millennia
Great video. Explained really well with visual help.
Thank you! Really informative 👍
Why the stars never changed position in 1000's years , if earth and the solar system is moving with 720.000 km/h in the Milky Way galaxy? That's 17.280.000 km/d.. The stars should be laying differently every few days, even if it's a little, but they don't. That's just not possible.
Polaris for example is 447.6 lightyears away. One lightyear is 9'000'000'000'000 km. With 17'280'000 km/d it still takes us 1426.94 years to travel even one light year, which will be circling around the center of the milky way, so not even a straight line. Math: 9 trillion divided by 17.28 million =520'833.33 days
Result divided by 365 = 1427 years
I dont know about you but to me this sounds like the stars should really change to much in the next 100 years. They do change a little of course but not by a amount that is really noticable when you observe the nightsky with your eyes.
@@adriankenel3004 from where do u get this impossible numbers? Who measured it, with what? I know all about ly and au, but i chose not to believe it, cuz its all a lie.
You obviously don't understand the magnitude of the universe. Most of the stars you see are in the milkyway galaxy, all rotating around the same point, so even if we are moving that fast through space, all the stars you see in the night sky are moving at very similar speed which would make them appear as not moving.
@@thatsgangsta2450 I understand perfectly this pseudoscience. Its like a religion, believe it all blindly, everything that nasa throws at you. Can us simple ppl prove it all they say its true? No we cant. So, astronomy is just another religion, and all religions were made for control. We will never know the truth about what the stars really are, nor this place we live in. This is my opinion... no need anymore replies, thx.
Great explanation
Thank you!
Good Job!
Why do we see mercury at night when it supposed to be between earth and the sun?with our back to the sun which is night our back should be to mercury also but there it is every night.simple stuff
it is simple stuff, it has to do with perspective. Earth and mercury are both orbiting the sun. So if mercury is on lets say the right side of the sun "from our perspective" the sun could be hidden by earths surface without mercury being hidden. So you certainly would see mercury less than maybe mars. But you can still see it a lot of the days during the year. If my explanation doesnt make sense you should go to a planetarium our look at a live model of our solarsystem.
Thank you
I understand the concept but many people do not.Another video is needed
Love the new intro and outro. On the shoulders of Ben!
Thank you
Good thanks
QUESTION why did I always see venus the brightest star in one spot for decades. Now it's moved 180 degrees. Why?
This was a nice explanation. But does not take into consideration the practicality of the heliocentric model. The heliocentric states we orbit the sun and are moving on a forward trajectory through space. How can it still be aligned when the earths orbit is 940 million km AND we are moving forward?
8 months and still no answer.. looks like we are stationary to me
I love starring at the North Star ⭐️ it’s magnificent and beautiful thank you
But the Earth travels in an orbit 186 million miles in diameter. The north star would have to travel in EXACTLY the same orbit for this to maintain. That destroys the planet theory. The axis would have to stay tilted slightly towards the sun at all times for the planet theory to work
Does it mean the countries under the globe see a different set of stars and constellation? And I don't see how people under the globe can see the north star?
Yes, every place on Earth sees a different array of stars and planets at a given time. People in the Southern Hemisphere cannot see the North Star. You might be able to see it if you are very close to the equator, but for the most part you can’t.
The winter and summer solstices are on the opposite sides of the sun and looking opposite directions, so for this to make sense, all the stars and constellations would have to orbit the sun as well. That blows the planet theory to pieces
Not sure I see how solstices occur “looking” in a particular direction or how they relate to other stars in the sky. Solstices are just a relationship between the Earth and sun
Then why it’s in the same spot if the earth rotate around the sun!
what about the rotation of earth around the sun? our north pole is continually shifting throughout the year. isn't it??
Yes, but on a cosmic scale, this movement is essentially nothing. It’s like looking at a distant mountain peak and then stepping one step to the side. Did the mountain peak appear to change?
Or.. we simply are not moving.. trust your senses.. and ponds and lakes and airplane pilots
Great! But, what about sun movement ? the earth trajectory is not plan also...
I understand the concept as to why you've always see the North Star. My question is. Why after thousands of years has that star never moved. I would think all the billions of stars in our galaxy that are moving around the center of our galaxy that no star would stay in its exact location for that long.
The star has actually moved over thousands of years. But NOT for the reason you say here. Almost every star we can see (and every bright-ish star for sure) is located in very close proximity to us in galaxy terms. If the galaxy were a city, Polaris might be our neighbor across the street. In actuality, we orbit the center of the Milky Way almost exactly together with Polaris. Give it more time, maybe billions of years, then things might change a lot more. The reason Polaris has shifted over time in because of our axial tilt which changes over the course of just thousands of years.
How can this be a North Star when i have to watch in the South West dirrection to spot it?
Hey Ben, question to you. When Jesus was born there is that star that lead the three Kings where Jesus was. What do you call that star?
It is called the king star and is still visible sometimes. I’ve seen another video on this. The mazaroth is the Hebrew study of astronomy (not astrology). I hope this helps you find the answer or a related video :)
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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He makes sense about the "spinning", but what he fails to take into account is that we are "spinning & rotating around the sun". considering that, there is no way in hell we are spinning and rotating around the sun, so I'd love to know wtf is really going on because this vid is a "half explanation" that doesn't add up to anything
Came here to write this exact thing
Did you ever find a “scientific” answer?
If there ever was an answer it would have been a theory. And the boy trying to be smart and informative but he missed the main idea "why doesn't it move?"
We sit here as the constellation spins, and the North Star is at the center of the universe, and it hangs over the center of the Earth
Does not make sense from a spinning globe Earth perspective, spinning 1000 mph at the equator, flying around the Sun at 4,000 mph and flying thru space at 66,700 mph, but makes total sense on the flat Earth model.
Earth is fixed, stable and immovable, just like the Bible says, just like our eyes and our senses tell us.
My understanding is the earth axis doesn’t change when we orbit around the sun. It is always in the same degree pointed towards pole star.
why is the north poly always pointing to the north star throughout the year.. there should be a slight change of location since we revolve around the sun..
And following the sun through space
What if it’s off the usual course
How can you see polaris from Australia if it is at the bottom of Earth.? And Earth is in the way
You can’t see it
I would like to know why none of the Stars seem to change as we approach them. My grandfather was shown the North Star by his grandfather by my estimation at 11 million miles per day that we travel towards the Sun when I show my grandson the North Star we will be almost 1 trillion miles closer to the North Star then when my great grandfather showed my grandfather.
Certainly some of the Stars should have changed in appearance.
Are we really so far away that you can claim nothing would change having moved a trillion miles closer to them
he said they don't move for observational purposes, to make it easy for laymen to understand the concept.Plus 3 generations of human life is not a big deal in celestial terms. nothing really changes in that scope of time.
Not only are we unimaginably far away , understand that as we are moving towards it, it's moving away from us at an even faster rate than we're moving. So there is no getting closer. And also technically any celestial bodies you can see , they aren't actually there at the same time you're viewing it. You're seeing it as it was millions of years ago
yes we are that far away. As you find out with a quick google search the north star is 447.6 lightyears away. 1 lightyear is about 5.88 trillion miles. So our perspective certainly changes but not in a significant way at all.
But we are also spinning around the sun; how do they remain the same ?!? Even my science teacher couldn’t understand why they always stayed the same. I’m still looking for an explanation
Yeah but the earth move around the sun so how we can this the north star in winter and summer too ??
What do you mean, winter and summer are a thing percisely because earth axis never changes direction. So during one time of the year you get more light on the northern hemisphere and during the other half of the year you get more on the southern hemisphere. Our axis is always facing the same direction and the north star just happened to be alligned with it.
@@adriankenel3004 what are you talking about ? according to scientists when it is winter in the northern hemisphere it is bc the round earth which is supposedly inclined is located higher than the axis of the sun so there is more sun to the south the north means that the earth is lower than the axis of the sun. look on the net the earth's orbit is diagonal around the sun.
so with all this the question arises, how we can see the mm stars in winter and summer while the earth is supposed to be in an opposite position between the two seasons. so they really told us the truth??
@@dakidd7770 That depends who they are to you. I dont know what you have been taught. The earth is orbiting the sun. The earth orbit is not round but what we call elliptical. So the distance between earth and sun changes by about 5 million km. Now the really important thing to note here, is that this distance is neglible when looking at how seasons are created. The real reason for seasons as was taught to me by a professor of geography, is that the earths axis is at an angle to the sun. The axis doesnt change direction in a significant way. Now as the earth makes its way around the sun, because of the angle the intensity of light shifts between the northern and southern hemisphere. This never changing of the axis also explains why in one place you always see the same nightsky more or less. I highly recommend to check a video on this because its better observed than explained. Most of us learn this stuff in school and there is a lot of confusion. But usually the textbooks do contain the right information and what is taught in universities is correct. A great way to see these things is in a observatory. The real lies that you are so scared of are probably told most in the internet.
I feel like we are the centre of the universe and not spinning at all.
I have a question about this. If the Polaris if off what does that mean. I’m asking because I believe it is off.
What do you mean by off?
@@OnTheShouldersofScience off as in off its course
Does this star circle the sun too?
No
You forgot we rotate around the sun so can you explain how in 6months when we are on the opposite side of the sun facing in the total opposite direction looking at the sky how do we still see polaris and even the exact same stars for that matter?
When we are on the other side of the sun looking at Polaris we are not looking in the opposite direction. Imagine you are in a room underneath a light fixture and two friends are in the room with you, one on your left and one on your right. Can they both see the light fixture even though they are on complete opposite side of you? We do not see the exact same stars 6 months apart, that's why there are summer constellations and winter constellations.
Bro cause our axis never changes
@@thelight9935 I know it doesn't but "science" tells us different .
Flat non moving earth 🤷.. I mean.. that's what the Bible says
@@tyjones1978 Bible is a work of fiction. If you actually believe in a flat earth there is no helping you.
Or the Earth is flat ... would that be a more simplified theory? JS
No doubt.the stars circle above us.The earth is still,at rest, immovable set on pillars just as the Bible states!
🤔Damn.. Flat earth makes more sense.
Bingo
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Why it is the same star if the axis moves together with the earth around the sun and with changing position of the earth also is changing the pointing North pole . That's the logic, but in reality it is not change. How?
Even though the Earth rotates around the sun, the North Star is so so far away, the North Pole is basically pointing the same direction. Imagine you point to a distant mountain. And then say you move an inch to the left and point at the same spot on the same mountain. For all practicality, it’s exactly the same line your pointing. This gives a rough idea of the colossal scale of the universe and how the North Star stays north even as Earth orbits the sun
PLEASE. why does the sky always show the same stars if we're rotating, and orbiting, and gyrating, and all this stuff. shouldn't we see different stars all the time?
Good question! The thing is, on a cosmic scale, the Earth rotates and orbits very slowly. It takes a full 24 hours for the Earth to make one spin. So the stars are moving across the sky, but it’s just too slow for us to notice with the naked eye. But why do we keep rotating through seeing the same stars? Well despite the crazy speeds Earth travels through the universe, on a universal level, it’s pitifully slow. Stars are so incredibly dispersed and far away, and we move towards or away from them so slowly. It’s like a snail trying to get to the moon. And we also all orbit around the center of our galaxy with essentially all of the other stars we can see with the naked eye. So we’re all moving together and we see those same stars. So the stars tend to stay the same
@@OnTheShouldersofScience so in enough time, and if the earth we're still alive, the sky would be full of obvious different stars
I don't think the stars should be in one place all the time, otherwise the star signs would not make sense at all
Please do another video demonstrating how the stars move in relation to the earth, through the seasons. I think you’ll find the model won’t work, and that our current model is not correct. There’s something not fitting. We should see totally different skies, not just the same constellations rotating.
What planet do you live on? You can see the north star from the southern hemisphere.
Nice video!
The star doesnt move during day and night. The ursa minor constellation its part of spins in circles. This proves the world is flat but everyone is scared to be wrong
Liars!! North star has never moved. How about the whirly ways supposedly the earth goes, the sun goes, the solar system goes, the galaxy goes, etc.... y'all don't know what's up or down. Don't even know what graviis. Lol
There ain't no such thing as gravity. Supposedly gravity is a force...NOT !!!! Something doesn't fall to the earth because gravity pulls it down. It fall because it's heavy and stay down be- cause it's heavy. If there was gravity always pulling or pushing to the earth how does the seed sprout ? It overcomes the strong force of gravity that pulled the apple to the ground. NO the stem of the apple weakened and the apple simply dropped. Nothing pulled it.
Would all this be true with a flat earth. Except not seeing from below the equator
IS THIS THE KID WHO EXPLAINED DIMENSIONS ALL GROWN UP? THE ONE THAT TIKTOK SAYS DISAPPEARED AFTER HE EXPLAINED DIMENSIONS D
Well you can explain earth rotation but definitely pole star destroys earth's revolution round the sun. Why should I not believe what I see?
Sure a happy coincidence
Yeah. Nort star is always in same place but we are moving and turning and are on opposite side of sun where you should have different constellation of stars. But we always see the same stars. This make no sense.
Being on opposite sides of the sun seems like it would make a big difference to what stars we see, but actually it doesn’t. The scale of the universe is so massive and everything else is so so so so far away that Polaris appears in the same place regardless of where Earth is in its orbit around the sun.
It is like looking at a mountain peak in the distance and then moving one step to the side. The mountain still looks exactly the same. This is the same as what happens as Earth orbits the sun except at a much larger scale
I don’t buy this. I think you should do a video on this to prove it! I think you’ll find there’s a problem with the current model of the galaxy. Another problem with the current model is that we can see Venus in the night sky in the middle of the night, when we are facing away from the sun and all things close to the sun. I don’t know what the correct model is, but there are so many holes with the current one, I know it can’t be correct.
@@Redeemed12 Thanks for the comment! Venus is actually impossible to see in the middle of the night for the exact reason you pointed out: we are faced away from the sun and can’t see what’s near the sun. Venus is never visible more than a couple hours after sunset or before sunrise. What other holes do you see in the model?
@@OnTheShouldersofScience Re: more holes in the model, one off the top of my head: it seems far too coincidental that the sun and the moon appear the same size to us, but are supposedly just the exact factor of distance away to make that an illusion, not a reality. How do the scientists know for sure how far the sun and the moon are from the earth?
Another question: is it possible that the earth is stationary and the universe is spinning around us? Since everything is relative, how can it be measured?
how come you just have 29 likes????
I would love more!
The moon is mother star.
The moon, sun, planets, and stars all move, except for the North Star. Day and night, summer, winter, spring, and autumn. "Happy coincidence" is more BS water doesn't curve it seeks a level plane(t)
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@@OnTheShouldersofScienceEarth ain’t a globe, silly.
Didn’t you watch your own video?
@@lettybastien4624 Haha 😂
Because the Earth is flat.
Do you think everyone in the world see the same stars??? Really confusing, like someone in Africa, Asia, or Europe see the same stars as the person in the US 🤔 nooo can't be right
At any given time, people in different parts of the world are peering into a different fraction of the sky, and they see different stars. As the Earth spins around as the day goes on however, your fraction of the sky will change and you will start to see different stars. If you’re in Europe, you might see the ones someone else saw in Asia a few hours before
Well in that case, I think it make sense to have different calenders around the world. And the star signs are influenced by this, for example if you are an Aries in the western world you could be a libra in Africa. The seasons make it easier, stars are seasonal right!
If the earth is round there's also a south star😁,.. nice try... Still flat....
Omg you make sense but no
Does North Pole people see same starts as South Pole ?! How ?
Earth’s axis goes through cycles (which can be seen over hundreds of thousands of years), and when it moves away from Polaris, Polaris won’t be in its fixed position anymore. but 26 thousand years after that, Polaris will be the north star again!
Thank you for that extra tidbit!
So much bullshit flying around !😂
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It’s not even the brightest star.
that makes no sense....the north star should move as well.
Why?
What do you mean 'the stars themself aren't really moving'? Yes they are. Everything is moving. Nothing is static so why do you say this?
You are correct; everything is moving. However, relative to Earth, the stars don’t really move. We’re all moving through space together. And even if a star started moving in a different direction at near the speed of light, that still wouldn’t be fast enough for us to notice a positional change in the sky anytime soon. The stars are just so far away that their movement relative to us becomes negligible
North Star is the center of the universe
It is not just the wobble it would be the speed of the ball around the sun and the sun around the galaxy... not to mention the north star is supposed to move also at incredible speeds... but none of that matters when because of Newton' s inverse square law would make any star beyond a couple of light month's distance totally undetectable. The sky moves, we live on a stationary land. If the ball were real the surface speed would be between 300 to 1000 MPH where most of the population live... I hope you learned something today.