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Ken Hagan

Re: Why can't stars move? 

In Did the Vatican suppress hidden 'Galileo Cryptogram'?

They do, and its called "proper motion", but they are so much further away than planets that the change in (angular) position is almost imperceptible. Neptune is a few light hours away, but the nearest star is a few light years away, which is about 10000 times further.

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