ELI5; Star constellations and how people decided which lines connected certain stars.

Question

I don’t understand what logic was used to make the constellations. I can’t seem to see constellations or how to identify them.

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Answer 1

Pattern recognition is something that people are very good at … even when working with random data.

There are not that many bright stars in the sky; people with not much else to do but guard their flocks of sheep at night could play connect-the-dots, flesh out the stick figures, and tell stories about the animals or gods or whatever in the sky.