This would almost certainly require the aliens to live very close to us, and probably see better, too. Even in perfectly dark sky (which almost no one has these days thanks to light polution), humans can only see a small fraction of the normal stars in the Milky Way.
The bright stars that make up constellations are either very close stars, or extremely bright objects like supergiants, red giants, and quazars in other galaxies and the like.
Even from Pluto, our sun starts to fade in to the background. The aliens would have to be reasonably close. If they saw well enough to spot the sun from very far, it’d still be in a field of much brighter stars from more than, say, 10% of the Milky Way’s diameter.
Mind, there are plenty of stars within that small bubble of the galaxy, but the Fermi Paradox has not been solved, yet. (though IMO it’s either early universe, dead universe, or the smart aliens realize we’re like a cosmic fire ant hill: too stupid to talk to, too dangerous to approach)
This would almost certainly require the aliens to live very close to us, and probably see better, too. Even in perfectly dark sky (which almost no one has these days thanks to light polution), humans can only see a small fraction of the normal stars in the Milky Way.
The bright stars that make up constellations are either very close stars, or extremely bright objects like supergiants, red giants, and quazars in other galaxies and the like.
Even from Pluto, our sun starts to fade in to the background. The aliens would have to be reasonably close. If they saw well enough to spot the sun from very far, it’d still be in a field of much brighter stars from more than, say, 10% of the Milky Way’s diameter.
Mind, there are plenty of stars within that small bubble of the galaxy, but the Fermi Paradox has not been solved, yet. (though IMO it’s either early universe, dead universe, or the smart aliens realize we’re like a cosmic fire ant hill: too stupid to talk to, too dangerous to approach)