Do stars move?

Question

or do they stay in one place

Answer 1

stars stay in one place unless their shooting stars then they fall to the earth

Answer 2

Everything moves. I think.

Answer 3

The stars move. See the link for more info

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questio...

Answer 4

Considering that our own Sun is travelling about 200 km/sec around the galactic core, the answer would be yes. It takes one Galactic Year (about 226 million years) to complete one circuit. Everything else in our galaxy is spinning too.

Answer 5

Stars don't move, the Earth does. What appears to be movement is the rotation of the Earth. The stars raise in the East and set in the West just as the sun and moon do.

If you were to draw a line out from both of the poles, the stars rotate around that pole. Polaris, the North Star, is the center of the pole and doesn't noticeably move. You can watch the other stars go around this, it is very noticeable in a time lapse photograph of the sky at night, you get many arcs centered around that point.

Answer 6

that stars ARE moving, as is everything in the Universe.  the stars are just so far away it is hard to see the movement.

there are stars out there that "orbit" around each other.

Answer 7

Yes, stars move. But for just about all stars, the movement is so slow that people don't notice it -- not even over a life time.

Typical speeds are 1 degree across the sky in 36,000 years.  The fastest is Barnard's Star, at about 1 degree in 350 years.

Answer 8

Yes the stars move. The galaxy has a type of rotation.

This means the constellations we see in the sky and know so well won't exist someday.

EDIT: That is to say, eve when the stars are still there, we won't see them in the same configuration...hence, we won't see the same constellations.

Answer 9

They have found stars that revolve around each other. And besides, because of the "big bang theory," they claim that every celestial body is moving away from each other.