Since we can't see individual stars in other galaxies the only constellations we know of are the ones visible from the earth. The top 5 largest constellations are Draco, Ursa Major, Hydra, Centaurus, and Pegasus. You can find the sizes of all the constellations at: http://www.sizes.com/natural/constellations.htm
2007-03-28 08:37:49
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answered by Twizard113 5
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Largest Star Constellation
2016-12-18 06:25:09
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answered by mehaffey 4
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2015-08-13 03:07:37
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, so many people are confused about constellations, thinking they are clusters of stars. They are not.
Imagine in a pitch black night a friend shining a flashlight at you from 100 yards away, and behind him, ten miles away on a hill, the army is shining a bright searchlight in your direction. From your aspect, the two lights might appear to have similar brightness and may look next to each other. In fact they are miles apart.
The fact is your 3-D vision only works out to a few dozen yards, so when there are no other points of reference, distant objects will tend to look the same distance away, unless you know the size of the object - like you know a tree is smaller than a mountain.
With the night sky, you have a flat canvas as far as your eyesight is concerned. The ancients thought the stars were all at the same distance, because they just did not know otherwise. In fact stars are various distances and because they also vary enormously in brightness, you cannot even guess a star is nearer because it looks brighter.
So, constellations have stars at all different distances, but on that flat canvas of sky, they look like they are associated.
Have a look at the Pliaedes in Taurus the Bull. It's a little group of stars in a pattern a little like the dipper (plough for Brits). However, these stars are a real group. It is a cluster of stars.
2007-03-28 10:13:50
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answered by nick s 6
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You're kind of confused. Constellations, the apparent pictures made by stars, do not really exist as such.
Stars are randomly (more or less) scattered through space, and our particular vantage point can place our line of sight so that stars appear to form figures when viewed against what is, to all intents and purposes, a flat background---the sky.
But they may be many light years apart, and in fact, we would only have to go out to about twice the distance of the nearest star to have the "Familiar Constellations" disappear.
So there is no meaningful way to answer your question.
2007-03-28 09:49:59
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answered by JIMBO 4
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