A few salient features are listed below. Stars look like they are all the same distance from us.
Stars move, but are fixed relative to each other.
Shooting stars are common. The Milky Way is a gigantic feature of the sky. The top of the Celestial Sphere Fig. 2 is a drawing of the night sky with the North Star placed at the Center. This mapping of the locations of the stars is called a sky chart . What we observe can be made more specific if we add a few new terms to our vocabulary.