A View From Outside Earth Over Time

A view from our world is unique to us. As our planet drifts around it's mother star, once every three hundred and sixty-fives or so, it meanders past a view of each of the twelve constellations. But it's axis wobbles, so the view changes on a cycle known as the precession. As the axis wobbles the path also drifts up and down over time, like riding a horse on a merry-go-round. So the view "As Seen From Earth," changes. Due to an elliptical orbit caused by the pull of Jupiter, the ellipse moves with every cycle until it has it made a complete cycle around the sun, where it starts all over again.

For us humans to recognize this cycle of astronomical views from earth, we would have had to live through at least one full Precession and observe the cycle repeating. But this would take 10's or maybe even 100's of thousands of years. No one, I know of, has ever achieved this. No ONE, has. But we ALL have. Some how people have known about these cycles for several thousand years.

The Milankovitch Cycles