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Fixed stars
(redirected from The fixed stars)

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(Astron.) such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.

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Because it is moving rapidly against the fixed stars, it should be easily identified when viewed with a telescope.
Tom Phipps rephrased Mach, "When the railway jerks, it is the fixed stars that throw you down.
Astrology determines the character and tendencies of the individual souls in the heavens; in fact, where there is no planet (as in the Fixed Stars and Primum Mobile), Dante meets no souls individualized by character traits.
 
 
 
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