Status Updates From The Stars: A New Way to See...

Nobody could tell what the other side of the moon looked like
until 1959, when the Russian space satellite Luna 3 took the first photographs of those regions.
The moon is taking its revenge on Earth. It causes the tides of the oceans, which act as brakes on Earth’s rotation and cause our days to become longer by one second every 120,000 years.

Because of 4min!The revolution of the stars round the pole does not take a full 24h but only about 23h&56m: about 4m less than a day. The stars therefore rise 4m earlier every day than the day before. If it were not for these 4m, if the stars took exactly 24h to make 1 complete turn, we should see the stars in exactly the same position at the same h every night, and stargazing would be the simplest thing in the world

..the sky changes not only from hour to hour. It also changes from night to night, week to week, month to month, season to season.

BERENICE’S HAIR
This constellation owes its name to a theft: Berenice was an Egyptian queen (3rd century B.C.) who sacrificed her hair to thank Venus for a victory her husband had won in a war. The hair was stolen from the temple but the priests in charge convinced the disconsolate queen that Zeus himself had taken the locks and put them in the sky as a constellation.

When Cassiopeia is high up in the sky, in late fall and early winter, Cepheus, Andromeda, Perseus, Pegasus, and the Whale can also be seen well.

Cassiopeia and Cepheus had a daughter, Andromeda

You can’t have everything, even from the stars.

After the day is gone we shall go out, breathe deeply, and look up—and there the stars will be, unchanged, unchangeable.
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Night after night they are there. And night after night they arouse our curiosity, our urge for knowledge.
Stone age or space age, man will be asking the question his grandparents have asked before him and his grandchildren will ask after him:
“What star is that?

So interesting