Stars fill the whole frame and turn slowly around one point above the middle, which is labelled as the still point. Each star drags a short arc behind it. A black horizon runs along the bottom with five small standing stones on it, pale where the starlight catches them.
Story of the sky
Guided tour · Walk the discoveries in the order people made them
1 / 10Before 3000 BCE
Stars wheel around one still point
The whole sky seems to turn around one still point. Star patterns come back with the seasons, so the sky told a farmer when to plant.
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