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What keeps the North Star stuck at exactly North?
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What keeps the North Star stuck at exactly North?

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The earth’s axis oscillates in a 26,000 year cycle called precession. The north pole sweeps out a circle in the sky. In a century or so, the north celestial pole will be at its closest to Polaris and then it will move on by.
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The reason that the North star appears to stay stuck in one place in the sky compared to the other stars which 'move', is because it is aligned the most with our North pole on Earth. Since the Earth spins on an axis, anything aligned with that axis will not appear to move to us

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