fixed star in a sentence
Examples
- These apply to the apparent revolutions of the planets and fixed stars as well.
- Do any of them know how much variation is needed in the fixed stars?
- The outermost consisted of motionless, fixed stars, with the Sun motionless at the center.
- As we now know, the fixed stars are not fixed.
- If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation,
- Hipparchus thought it was caused by the motion of the sphere of fixed stars.
- In the 4th century, Eudoxus of Cnidus wrote a book on the fixed stars.
- He established the idea of a sphere of fixed stars that rotated about the earth.
- The fixed stars exhibit real motion as well, however.
- In 1718 Edmund Halley announced his discovery that the fixed stars actually have proper motion.