... of the stars of the Southern Cross.These various types of nebulae and star clusters recurthroughout our story of the discovery of the Milky Way galaxy,as clues and signposts to the seven astronomers ... of the sky is, of course, due to the rotation of the Earth, not the sky, and we know that the starsare not all at the same distance, as they would be if they werefixed to the inner surface of ... sense the slow rotation of the sphere, carrying the stars across your field of view from east towest, and slinging them underneath you on the other side of the Earth. The apparent daily movement of...