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Not necessarily. A constellation is more properly thought of as a direction from the Earth, rather than a region of space. Stars that are in the same direction appear to be part of the same "picture", but one may be more distant from the other.

As an extreme example, the star 61Cyg in the constellation Cygnus is about 11 light-years from Earth, while the apparently nearby Deneb (also in Cygnus) is 3200 light-years away. Deneb is essentially "behind" 61Cyg, so they appear to be in the same region of the sky, even though they are very far from each other.

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