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Patterns of stars in constellations hardly change in appearance over times of even a few thousand years. Why

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Because the stars actually move thousands of kilometers per hour and due to the distance from us, it takes a long time for this movement to make a noticeable change in the patterns in the sky and therefore to us to realice it.

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