The skies reflect our spinning world

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Oct 11, 2011 6:57 PMNov 19, 2019 8:38 PM

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We live on a spinning ball, rotating madly as it moves through space. Once every day the surface of our planet makes a circuit around the imaginary line connecting its poles... well, imaginary it may be, but the effects are quite real, especially when you take long exposures of the night sky. That's what photographer Brad Goldpaint did, and created this lovely time lapse video he calls Breaking Point:

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