This is an interesting idea, but I think I might contest this. Consider that the stars that make up our constellations can be relatively close maybe as far as a few tens of thousands of light years away, but the Milky Way is about 10 times wider than that. You also should consider that our sun isn’t an especially large or bright one. It’s a relatively average midsize star, which I imagine is underrepresented in constellations. Finally, distance in space is also distance in time, so the viewer is seeing our sun in the past. The light that you’re experiencing in your lifetime has an even smaller chance of being seen as part of that constellation. What you really mean is our star as it looked at some point in the past.
Maybe! Just keep in mind that our constellations require reasonable visibility from the background of the viewer, which I think is going to apply some selection criteria.
Damn, I just got done typing up the same idea… lol I love how humans glorify everything about us, but we’re extremely mid on the cosmic scale. Even the sun which we worshiped for thousands of years is but a calm normie, and any number of other cosmic bodies could kill us by accident from across the galaxy.
This is an interesting idea, but I think I might contest this. Consider that the stars that make up our constellations can be relatively close maybe as far as a few tens of thousands of light years away, but the Milky Way is about 10 times wider than that. You also should consider that our sun isn’t an especially large or bright one. It’s a relatively average midsize star, which I imagine is underrepresented in constellations. Finally, distance in space is also distance in time, so the viewer is seeing our sun in the past. The light that you’re experiencing in your lifetime has an even smaller chance of being seen as part of that constellation. What you really mean is our star as it looked at some point in the past.
Maybe! Just keep in mind that our constellations require reasonable visibility from the background of the viewer, which I think is going to apply some selection criteria.
Damn, I just got done typing up the same idea… lol I love how humans glorify everything about us, but we’re extremely mid on the cosmic scale. Even the sun which we worshiped for thousands of years is but a calm normie, and any number of other cosmic bodies could kill us by accident from across the galaxy.
We’re not even mid, we’re extremely nothing
Any why you should never skip your prayers to the Sun
I mean at this point I’m about hoping the sun succeeds in killing us off without going too wack, because humans are a blight on this planet.