As an astronomer I am very happy observing the sky and trying to understand some of the details. Astrophysicists and Cosmologists are working way above my pay grade, they uncover clues as to the state of the universe and the stuff in it.
I like to observe. I’ve got a couple telescopes and I’ve been known to

spend the whole night outside.
An odd mark on a globe of the Earth made me think of something to observe. I predict that over time the whole observation will encompass a re-produceable pattern.
So we learn that the Sun appears to change altitude in our North Carolina sky over the year:
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lower in December
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higher in June.