• Question: how many constalations have you seen?

    Asked by anon-219213 to Nicolas on 20 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Nicolas Bonne

      Nicolas Bonne answered on 20 Jun 2019:


      Constellations are tricky, because there are all of the ones that the Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese, ancient people from the Middle East, native Australians (mostly every culture in history) decided on, but all of these were completely different. Constellations are cool because they were a good way for ancient people to tell interesting stories, but they’re a bit like making a drawing using dots. It’s just what people chose to see when they looked at the sky and wondered what was going on. You could actually make up your own constellations if you wanted to.

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