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Old 05-06-2012, 08:11 PM
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Our own galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, contains some 500 billion stars. Each and every one of these stars can be looked at from an infinite variety of different angles and can be looked at from a vast variety of different distances.

It is very likely that a person could find two views that look very similar, or identical, if he/she goes to the appropriate points within our galaxy.
I venture to say that any particular shape within the imagination of a human, could be found somewhere in our galaxy.....

The constellations and star alignments that we see in our (2-dimensional ) sky from Earth are simply a product of our own particular place in our galaxy. There are billions of different places in our own Galaxy, and each of these places will have its own constellations.

These star alignments are usually quite random, excepting cases where stars are genuinely associated, for example in star clusters, OB associations, and spiral arms.

So, there is little significance to most of the shapes that can be seen in the sky.

Just because two things look identical, it does not mean that they have to be connected.

Yours truly,
madbadgalaxyman
(I am an observer of the Milky Way and the other galaxies, with four decades of experience.)
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