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This song is available on Musically Aligned's Science Songs 3.

Good night Cory.
Good night mom. I’ll see you in the morning.

Wow! Ursa Major, the Big Dipper...
There’s the Little Dipper.
There’s Sirius in Orion’s belt.

As you’re lying in bed, you look at the sky...
Patterns of stars on a cloudless night.
You close your eyes to take a snooze,
but when you wake up it seems the stars have moved.

Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns

During different seasons
I see different patterns
of stars in the sky.
My teacher tells me it’s
because the earth moves.

Take a look at Polaris, a.k.a the North Star,
and picture a clock with this star in the center
and the rest of the sky going tick-tock tick-tock,
turning clockwise around it.

Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns

Now when I look up at the sky
and it appears to be rotating
clockwise around the North Star,
it’s not the sky that is moving.
It’s us!
The earth’s rotation and its orbit
around the sun makes it look like
the sky is moving!

Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns
Objects in the sky...predictable patterns

This song is available on Musically Aligned's Science Songs 3.

Many thanks to Kenny Hood's Musically Aligned for permission to display these lyrics.
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