CONSTELLATIONS

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CONSTELLATIONS

• THOSE THAT GUIDE US

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LOOK UP AND BEHOLDThe lights of the universe.

• Look at the sky at night, you will see what
  appears to be individual stars.
• These visible stars are few in comparison to the
  actual number out there.
• One 1 in 4 of these stars are actual single
  stars.
• Most are double or triple stars.

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STAR GROUPSStar parties all over space.

• For more than 3000 years, people have observed
  and recorded the shifting but seeming fixed
  patterns of stars.
• These fixed patterns are known as constellations.

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WHAT DID THEY SEE IN THE HEAVENS?Naming star
groups.

• Civilizations from long ago looked at the skies
  and assigned names to different patterns of
  stars.
• Understanding the location and movement of the
  constellations helped people keep track of time
  and to navigate.

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MORE THAN STICK FIGURESThe role of
constellations.

• A constellation is a region of the sky.
• Each constellation shares a border with a
  neighboring constellations.
• Every star or galaxy is located within 1 of 88
  constellation.