Here’s why people picked certain stars as constellations

Scientists have come up with three main reasons why certain stars are picked as constellations. The reasons are how bright the stars are, the distance between them, and simply how the human eyes move. The human eye tends to move in jumps called saccades. Saccades are when both eyes quickly shift from one point to another. These techniques combined together helped map constellations all across the sky. These methods worked to confirm how constellations came to be. 


I found this article interesting because I never really thought about how star patterns in the sky were picked out like constellations. However, after reading the article, it does make sense that we picked out the brightest stars to be constellations because they are obviously more visible. Though, I never really thought that the way our eyes move had anything to do with it, but then again it makes sense now that I'm actually thinking about it. 

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-people-picked-certain-stars-as-constellations

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  1. AnonymousMay 12, 2021 at 4:42 AM

    I think this is very interesting because I have thought about how constellations were created and how they came to be. I have to agree with you because I never knew that our eyes had anything to do with what we can see. Now that I have read this I wonder if there is a reasoning for the names too and how they became.

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  2. AnonymousMay 12, 2021 at 8:24 AM

    Astrology is pretty cool. I think there should be a constellation named after me. Not only are the star patterns interesting but also sometimes they come with a back story.

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  3. AnonymousMay 24, 2021 at 10:50 AM

    I never knew that humans were involved in the making of constellations either. I wonder what other things occur in the sky that we developed.

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