But they may see our sun as we do theirs, in appearance a fixed star?
How may you observe the motion of a planet, by means of a fixed star?
There is exactly the same difference as between the light of the sun and that of the moon; the first being a fixed star, the second a planet.
As I explained to you, when speaking of the telescope, whenever we increase the magnifying power of this instrument we diminish its field of view, so that with very high magnifiers we can see nothing but a point, such as a fixed star.
Were the sun stationary in the heavens, like a fixed star, the time of its apparent revolution would be equal to the revolution of the earth on its axis, and the solar and the sidereal days would be equal.
On the other hand, the periodic time of an opaque revolving body, sufficiently large, which would produce a similar temporary obscuration of the sun, seen from a fixed star, would be less than fourteen hours.
It had no parallax, and therefore was a fixed star.
It could not therefore have been a meteor, nor a planet regularly revolving round the sun, nor a comet blazing with fiery nebulous light, nor a satellite of one of the planets, but a fixed star, far beyond our solar system.
It is true that she does not rotate relatively to a line drawn from the earth to her centre, but she must rotate relative to a fixed line, or a line drawn to a fixed star.
To begin, it is very difficult to comprehend what the authors, above alluded to, meant by saying that the moon "must rotate relative to a fixed line, or a line drawn to a fixed star.
He thought that he was standing in a long, low attic, amidst the whirr and clatter of many looms.
If he wanted to tell you about a tree he drew a picture of the tree; the picture of a man represented a man, and so on.
Here the participle phrases having been hired and being attacked are used as adjectives to modify the nouns woman and man.
A fixed starof the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fixed star" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
