Like a turning wheel, the great celestial dome rotates over our heads every day and night. In fact it rotates under our feet too but there’s a planet forever blocking our view (the one you’re standing on, the Earth).Only the astronauts have had a sense of the starry scape in the form of a great sphere, with oneself floating in the middle. Trying to fathom the cosmos, mankind has gradually gained some sense of perspective, with an understanding that is only liable to be [...]
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