what happens if a star falls out of a constellation?

Answer 1

Constellations are arrangements of stars lined up as we see them now from Earth. All of the stars making up a constellation are millions and millions of miles apart and moving in various directions. So all the constellations are changing size and shape with time. But it takes time because they are so far away and have so far to move. If one is moving fast enough, then in a few thousand years, it might just leave the pattern, moving off by itself, leaving the pattern behind. Not falling out, but drifting off.
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Answer 2

A star does not simply fall out of a constellation. The only reason that we see constellations from Earth is that the stars lie on the same line of sight. In reality, they are thousands of light years apart, not even CLOSE to each other. If a star that made up part of a constellation became a supernova and blew up, then the constellation would have a bright fuzzy dot in place of the star. Eventually, that would fade away until the star became invisible and the constellation would appear to have a hole unless another star on the same line of sight became visible.

Answer 3

Couldn't happen, because in space there is no up or down. So nowhere for a star to "fall".
And constellations are just patterns humans see in the random scattering of stars in the sky - the stars in a constellation are not near each other and not related to each other except as patterns we see.

Answer 4

Hi:

A star can not fall out of the Constellation it can Super nova or burn out over time or if you wait say a couple thousand to a million years or more ( of course you will never see it due to the fact you can't live that long ). It can change postions in it. It make a different figure in the Constellation which will be Named differently Like Leo the Lion might be name "the Spear" or something like that by those people in about 2,500 years from now. but we will never see due to the fact the stars are so distance from us ,that the light from them will take thousand of years to reach to let use know that they changed postions. We don't see the star has they are but as they were in the past when there light was sent out from how many light years they are from us, for example Krypton was 30 lights years or 210 trillion miles from Earth, Now Superman ( aks Kalel) when he was a baby, Joel he's father sent him through Hyperspace in a spaceship. So he arrived on Earth when he was 1 year old ( due the fact his ship was in hyperspace for one year) after it blew up, Okay the Light from Krypton explodtion was racing thru Space toward Earth at the speed of light it wouldn't arrive on earth until Superman aks (Clark Kent ) was 31 years old During that time if Clark Kent look at the star constellation where Kryton was He would n't see the it was gone until he was thirty-one years later and if had a telescope powerful enough to see the surface on Kypton (before the thirty years were up) he could see the people going through there day to day routine until about 29 year later than would see Krypton earthquacks and and then a year later He would see it blow up and be no more.Stars do the same thing expect they take however many light year are from us meaning it will take that many years to reach you.

Hope this answer your question.

Answer 5

Stars don't 'fall.' Stars do move though, and over very long periods of time a star or stars will move away from their constellation(s). Another way a star could disappear from its constellation would be if it went supernova (..exploded..) or dwindled away to a white dwarf star.

Answer 6

You would have a different constellation go back a million years or forward the stars will have moved

Answer 7

it takes millions of years for stars to 'burn out' and there are periods that last for millions of years that they change colors.
the stars in constellations are stable enough that they won't change.

a falling star is not actually a star, it's like a meteor, or comet or other space junk re-entering earth's atmosphere and burning up. so they aren't really stars.

the stars we see in the sky are actually suns of other solar systems, but they are super far away.

Answer 8

Hi Sumana

Our sun is a star. Stars do not fall out of anywhere. They move to the next phase of their lifespan (as we do) but they don't move onto greener pastures.

Are you perhaps confusing them with falling stars which are really meteorites burning up in the atmosphere?

Was there more information or background to this question which might help us give you a better answer?

Cheers

Peps

Answer 9

Your ignorance of celestial mechanics has caused you to embarass yourself. Stars cannot fall out of their constellations.

Answer 10

Well stars don't fall .... They can go nova, or supernova which is an enormous explosion , they may also collapse into itself for eternity becoming a black hole. if it goes supernova it will leave a gas cloud (Nebula) behind . The term "falling star is really just a reference to meteorites burning up in the earths atmosphere , not stars.