Gary Gotham age 11, Rochester,'N.Y.,

Do the stars‑stay in their places?

The stars seem to swing over the sky every night. They rise in the east and set in the west. This is because the big globe of the earth is forever turning towards the east. New sky scenery is forever coming into view in the east and falling behind in the west. This is called the apparent motion of the stars and heavenly bodies. It is the way they appear to move as we view them from the turning globe.

Actually, everything in the sky is really moving, though you could not detect this real motion of the stars as you look up at them. our home in the heavens is a giant pinwheel of stars. All the stars you can see are part of the Galaxy system. The Galaxy is spinning around like a pinwheel, only faster.

All the stars spin around with it, all spin around in the same direction Sky distances are so vast that we cannot see these real motions of the star our part of the Galaxy is far from the center. The sun and its family of planets is moving around the star system at 170 miles a second. Some stars are being whirled farther away from us at a greater rate. But you could not notice any difference in them if you watched them for a thousand years,