how did we find constellations ?

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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?

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Constellations are purely cultural inventions, different cultures have different constellations and different mythoses related to night sky. It’s just looking for bunnies in clouds, except with a static view. So if you find one “bunny” and show it to your friends, they can show it to their friends etc.

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