In your own words describe the rotation of the earth and its revolution around the sun in terms of the foucault pendulum experiment and parallax and the aberration of starlight.

The brightest star in the night sky in the northern hemisphere is sirius. its distance from earth is estimated to be 8.7 light years. a light year is the distance light travels in one year. light travels at a speed of 3.00 × 108 m/s. calculate the distance from earth to sirius in miles. (1 mi = 5280 ft) g