Cosmic Queries: Telescopes
StarTalk Radio
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Is the Night Sky a Star?
If you were on a livable planet near Deneb with a telescope looking toward Earth, would our sun be in a constellation? We've got three dimensional coordinates of all the stars in the neighborhood out to several thousand light years. What matters is not what the constellation looks like because they never really look like what they're supposed to anyway. So I'm thinking today it's time to update the constellations.
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