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The Earth’s rotation makes the stars look like they’re moving. Qu Yubao/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images

Why can’t we feel the Earth moving?

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its orbit around the Sun at 67,000 mph? Here’s why you don’t feel all that motion.

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