| Constellations
The
constellations are imaginary things that poets, farmers, and astronomers
have made up over the past 6,000 years! Constellations help us to
identify the stars. Star watching has occupied humans from the earliest
times. Our ancestors studied the night sky and saw shapes and patterns
among the stars. They often made up stories to explain what they
saw. People saw the same star constellation very differently in
different countries, or even different parts of the same country.
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