How do stars manage to create the same constellations multiple times?

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I don’t see a flair option for Astronomy…

But I just recently wondered how stars could line up perfectly to create an Orions belt or many other shapes. Not only that but how do constellations end up being formed more than once? Are we looking at the same stars?

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They’re all really far away and so they stay in about the same location from us all the time. The only reason they moved through this sky is because of how the Earth spins and tilts and rotates around the sun.

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