what is the difference between galaxies and constilations?

Answer 1

constellations are just a pneumonic for remembering what the night sky looks like. Basically, it's just playing connect the dots with the stars in the sky so that you can look at the sky the next day and say, "hey, there's that dog I saw yesterday! That star that makes the tip of his nose must be the same one I saw just above the trees yesterday at 3 AM!" Galaxies are objects that you can't see with the naked eye. They are the homes of stars. Just as our earth lives in the solar system, our solar system and our sun lives in our galaxy, The Milky Way. A galaxy is a collection of hundreds of billions of stars. There are hundreds of billlions of galaxies out there.

Answer 2

A galaxy is a large formation of stars, gasses and matter and come in a variety of types and shapes that have a definition as a whole of being an object. A constellation is a collection of stars, galaxies or other luminous bodies in any combination that can be seen as a picture or similar representaion when linked together visually. Examples of galaxies include The Milkey Way and Andromeda. Examples of constellations include The Big Dipper, Ursa Major and Cancer. Constellations may be seen to include stars and bodies located soley within a galaxy or may contain galaxies in their structure.

Answer 3

A Constilation is a group of stars within a Galaxy.

Answer 4

A galaxy is a group of millions of stars all gravitationally held together in a group, often forming a spiral shape (like our galaxy). A constellation is a group of stars that people think look like a figure. A good example is the Big Dipper or Orion. Of course, they only look like that from the perspective of the earth. Move to some other point and the shape would be gone.

Answer 5

A constellation is any one of the 88 areas into which the sky - or the celestial sphere - is divided. The term is also often used less formally to denote a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration or pattern

A galaxy is a huge gravitationally bound system of stars, interstellar gas and dust, plasma, and (possibly) unseen dark matter. Typical galaxies contain 10 million to one trillion (107 to 1012) stars, all orbiting a common center of gravity. In addition to single stars and a tenuous interstellar medium, most galaxies contain a large number of multiple star systems and star clusters as well as various types of nebulae.

Answer 6

A galaxy is a cluster of stars drawn together by their gravity. A constellation is usually an unrelated group of stars within a galaxy that makes up a shape. The term galaxy is scientific, while constellation is just a picture that people see.

Answer 7

A constellation is a group of stars in the sky our ancestors played connect the dots with, and decided some of the star groups looked so much like objects they were familiar with, or people, or animals, they decided to name them as such.

Gemini is supposed to be twins, Scorpio is supposed to be a scorpion, Orion is supposed to be a hunter, leo is supposed to be a lion, and so on. In reality the stars may not be near eachother at all, but look to be so from out vantage point.

A galaxy is a group of often trillions of stars, that spans many light years. The stars often orbit around the nuclues in the center. The nucleus is typically comprised of large old stars, and it's thought, black holes, in many cases.

Answer 8

Constellations are groups of stars that appear to form a picture of something in the night sky. Galaxies are incredibly large groups of stars and other space objects that form one huge mass. IN constellations, stars that appear right next to each other can actually be millions of lightyears apart and in seperate galaxies, because one star may be closer to Earth then the other. It's all in the angle we look at them.

Answer 9

Constellations are patterns of stars in our night's sky, involving, at most, ten or twelve stars. Galaxies are larger groups of stars, numbering in hundreds of thousands or millions. Only the very nearest, like the Magellenic clouds, can be seen in the night's sky.

Answer 10

Constellation is what we see in the sky. Conecting some stars together that actually are many millions of lightyears appart but seem connected from earth.

Galaxy is astronomocally speaking a cluster of stars and all that goes with it.