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
Humans are very good at finding patterns, even if they aren’t there. That’s how the constellations were made.
You also live in a time where light pollution exists. You also very likely live near a large population center. The night sky looks very different when we aren’t pumping a bunch of light into the atmosphere, so it’s much easier to see those stars.
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