I don’t understand how one night a guy looked at the stars and said that if you draw a line between certain stars you can see a lion. And also were they chosen at random?
In: Planetary Science
Constellations are made up of stars that stand out for a number of reasons if you know what you are looking for (orientation in the sky, how they move through the night, what time of year they are visible, etc) and usually have some sort of relevance to the culture to named them (like marking north, or indicating a season change). The names and stories act as mnemonic devices.
There’s probably more an expert could get into but that’s basically it
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