ANSWERS: 3
  • Not much other than they appear to be in a certain fixed pattern when viewed from Earth. Not all "stars" in a constellation are actually stars either. Some are other objects such as galaxies.
  • Some stars in constellations could be hundreds of thousands of light years apart. As yeroca said above, they are merely "constellations" based on how we perceive them in shapes.
  • well ancient astronomers believed that God or gods put them in their orbits

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