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Earth’s Rotation Visualized in a Timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy by Aryeh Nirenberg

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Originally posted by boldlygiffing

This messed me up.

We really do just be on a rock without a fucking clue huh

everybody thinks of the earth spinning, and then maybe they think about how we’re traveling in a circle around the sun.

but we’re not

because the sun is traveling through space too

so what the earth is actually doing is this

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and that line the sun is making is actually its 225 million year orbit around the center of the galaxy, and our galaxy itself is moving through space, so our sun is actually doing its own version of that crazy earth orbit corkscrew up there too. We’re all dancing an insane helix made of helixes through the universe at a speed of about 1.5 million miles per hour

(via todeswalzer)