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
I think it is worth remembering that the stars which make up constellations may appear “adjacent” from our perspective, but remember they are overwhelmingly many many many lightyears further away or closer to us than eachother. Constellations aren’t some magic thing which “exist” in an objective sense – they are random collections of entirely unrelated stars which our brains (evolved to favour pattern-finding) associate and we decide to attribute names and meanings to.
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