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How come some constellations don´t look like what they´re named?

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How come some constellations don´t look like what they´re named?

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Only a few constellations look like what they´re named because they were named at a time when imagination and storytelling were the dominant focus of the peoples who named them thousands of years ago. Some were named after seasonal events like floods and plantation times and not actual objects. See Ian Ridpath´s Star Tales for some fascinating constellation history.

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