Stars rise and for the same reason that the sun does. The earth is spinning like a top, turning from west to east, and that makes all the thing surrounding the earth seem to move the other way. As we look out at the surrounding sky, it looks like a large hollow sphere with us inside at its center. We see only the upper half of the sphere because the lower half is hidden by the ground. As the earth turns from west to east, the whole sky sphere seems to turn from east to west. The sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars look like dots painted on the inside of this sphere. As the sphere seems to turn, it carries them all together in a daily round trip around the earth