Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change ... by variations in the cumulative effect of eccentricity and precession (eccentricity modulated precession), whereas higher latitudes ...

As a result, Earth's axis of rotation has developed a distinct wobble - known to scientists as axial precession - which sees the celestial pole trace a wide, lazy circle over a roughly 26,000 year ...

and a 20,000-year cycle in the "wobble" — much like a top wobbles — of the Earth's axis (precession). All three of orbital cycles — called Milankovitch cycles — impact African climate on ...

Our Earth behaves much the same, and over time, its rotational axis traces a giant circle among the stars. Rarely does anyone other than astronomers ever think about precession since a full cycle ...