Are stars stationary?

Question

stars

Answer 1

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Answer 2

no, the also keep on moving like earth and other planets

Answer 3

Actually

yes

Answer 4

Nope. Definitely not. Stars aren't stationary. They move constantly. According to Newton's laws of motion. There's no absolute space (position) in the Universe. Means..there's no absolute state of rest in the Universe. All objects in the Universe moves. In fact, our Universe constantly expands..meaning the stars and the galaxies(very big group of stars) move away from each other. Albert Einstein went further ahead and said that even time is not absolute. The only thing that is constant or absolute as far as we know is the speed of light propagation in the vacuum.

Still, stars appear stationary due the huge distance that separates us from them. The most nearest ones would still a few light years away. It would take a very long time to see them change positions due to their movement.

Answer 5

venkat p are you sure?

cause i always thought that stars are planents that are like our sun...

we revolve around the sun... the sun revolves around something else XD....

okay ill prove it!

"Rotation

Main article: Stellar rotation

The rotation rate of stars can be approximated through spectroscopic measurement, or more exactly determined by tracking the rotation rate of starspots. Young stars can have a rapid rate of rotation greater than 100 km/s at the equator."

that is a direct quote from wikipedia... any rotation of a planet is movement. with movement it can move as fast (faster or slower) than earth! =)

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Stars are not stationary.

Stars rotate around the center of the galaxy which there in, just like planets rotate around the center of the solar system (which is the star).

Answer 8

No offcourse not!Look a satellite revolves around a planet,a planet revoves arond a star and each and every star in a galaxy is revolving around the centre of the galaxy.Nothing in this universe is stationary.The galaxy to rotates around itself.

Answer 9

No, they are constantly moving.Maybe because the are ravolving  about the centre of The galaxy.Our sun also makes one such revolution every 200 million years.They may also be a binary system,revolving around another star.There are several reasons but I am sure that Stars move

Answer 10

not too many years ago we thought all the stars were attached to a crystal sphere that surrounded the Earth.

now, even though we know better, we still think of each individual star as having a 'proper motion' described by vectors against that fictitious sphere.

Some stars move a lot, some very little... some are so far away they are practically motionless... relative to us.

Answer 11

No their not stationary. because our galaxy is constantly spinning along with our solar system and other ones. The star in the middle of our galaxy makes out sun seem like a planet to it always spinning, since its almost done we will be in the age of aquarius, currently in capricorn. and we are close to galactic and universal alignment with all the meteors we are passing through a meteor field now. So nope, stars move.

Answer 12

Your question is very intersting because it relates to the Theory of Relativity that says there is no absolute point of reference in the universe and therefore anything is from the relative reference of observation.

Stars are moving in relation to their galaxy center. Galaxies are moving toward each other in a galaxy clutter. But then? Where is the next reference point?

There isn't any and as for the star own spacetime frame of reference, it is not moving at all.

Allow me an example: You leave earth on a spaceship with a constant acceleration. As observed from earth, after some years, you will approach the speed of light which you can't overcome. Your space ship will then appear to slow down in its acceleration. But, inside your spaceship, you will notice the gravitational pull of the acceleration to be constant, for ever. And yet, in your own frame of spacetime, you are not moving at all.

Funny, isn't it?

Answer 13

yup..they never revolve around anything..

Answer 14

they are not exactly stationary.. they move too

Answer 15

Absolutely not, a simple explanation would be Binary Stars they revolve around the center of their mass therefore stars are not stationary, some of them like to tango.

Answer 16

Nope. Definitely not. Stars aren't stationary. They move constantly. According to Newton's laws of motion. There's no absolute space (position) in the Universe. Means..there's no absolute state of rest in the Universe. All objects in the Universe moves. In fact, our Universe constantly expands..meaning the stars and the galaxies(very big group of stars) move away from each other. Albert Einstein went further ahead and said that even time is not absolute. The only thing that is constant or absolute as far as we know is the speed of light propagation in the vacuum.

Still, stars appear stationary due the huge distance that separates us from them. The most nearest ones would still a few light years away. It would take a very long time to see them change positions due to their movement.

Nope. Definitely not. Stars aren't stationary. They move constantly. According to Newton's laws of motion. There's no absolute space (position) in the Universe. Means..there's no absolute state of rest in the Universe. All objects in the Universe moves. In fact, our Universe constantly expands..meaning the stars and the galaxies(very big group of stars) move away from each other. Albert Einstein went further ahead and said that even time is not absolute. The only thing that is constant or absolute as far as we know is the speed of light propagation in the vacuum.

Still, stars appear stationary due the huge distance that separates us from them. The most nearest ones would still a few light years away. It would take a very long time to see them change positions due to their movement.

Nope. Definitely not. Stars aren't stationary. They move constantly. According to Newton's laws of motion. There's no absolute space (position) in the Universe. Means..there's no absolute state of rest in the Universe. All objects in the Universe moves. In fact, our Universe constantly expands..meaning the stars and the galaxies(very big group of stars) move away from each other. Albert Einstein went further ahead and said that even time is not absolute. The only thing that is constant or absolute as far as we know is the speed of light propagation in the vacuum.

Still, stars appear stationary due the huge distance that separates us from them. The most nearest ones would still a few light years away. It would take a very long time to see them change positions due to their movement.

Nope. Definitely not. Stars aren't stationary. They move constantly. According to Newton's laws of motion. There's no absolute space (position) in the Universe. Means..there's no absolute state of rest in the Universe. All objects in the Universe moves. In fact, our Universe constantly expands..meaning the stars and the galaxies(very big group of stars) move away from each other. Albert Einstein went further ahead and said that even time is not absolute. The only thing that is constant or absolute as far as we know is the speed of light propagation in the vacuum.

Still, stars appear stationary due the huge distance that separates us from them. The most nearest ones would still a few light years away. It would take a very long time to see them change positions due to their movement.

Answer 17

That's a trick question because binary star groups will circle each other, and if a star is near a black hole, or some other form of extreme gravitational pull there is a chance that it will start to wobble on its axis.

Answer 18

No, nothing in space is really stationary. Stars orbit around the center of their galaxies and even the galaxies move around in their groups, the groups also move...