Hung Like Huang

Putting my intro astronomy class’ material into good use, let me educate… ahem… let me school you fools on what’s up with this here image. The image clearly depicts the Sun revolving around the Earth over the course of a year. Now, I know some of you scientists might say otherwise, but let me assure that geocentricism is alive and thriving, thanks to images like this.

On a related note, is anybody attending the Flat Earth Society symposium next week?

What’s really happening: The apparent path of the Sun around the Earth, has to do with an imaginary gigantic sphere, whose central point is the Earth, that projects the Earth’s features (equator, poles, etc.), known as the celestial sphere. It’s useful for mapping stars, planets, meteors, etc.

In this case, the Sun’s yearly course, or ecliptic, is seen here. It’s kind of like switching the spot of the Sun, with the Earth’s. Except, there’s no switching, it’s just from an Earthly point of view/perspective which centers it, but it’s not, but it is, you know? So it looks like the Sun is the one revolving.
Make any sense? Sure it doesn’t. Just google/wikipedia it. Or don’t.
Image from Educated Earth.