Before that, the planets had been recognized for millenniums as being different from the "fixed stars," which appeared not to move with respect to one another.

I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success.

"When the subway jerks, it's the fixed stars that throw you down."

He explained that the only way to arrive at the correct time was to use fixed stars.

In Western astrology they represent coping with sorrow and were considered a single one of the medieval fixed stars.

They can see the sky from anywhere in the city; and the only fixed stars are Sol and the target star.

For our purposes here, we can pretend that the "fixed stars" live in Minkowski spacetime.

Fourteen million years was long enough for the slow movement of the "fixed" stars to have changed the face of the heavens.

The outermost consisted of motionless, fixed stars, with the Sun motionless at the center.

In astrology some formations of a six-pointed star can signify fixed stars.