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Through people's imaginations.

Constellations are not "real". If you took a paint brush, dipped it in paint, and swung it hard through the air to leave a splatter of paint on the wall, you could likely find some patterns in the arrangement of the droplets that look at least as much like some object as the constellations look like whatever they're supposed to be.

So, the stars are arranged just however, and when we look at them, we say 'hey, that looks kind of like a guy with a sword on his belt'. Or "That one looks kind of like a teapot, let's call it Sagittarius and pretend it's a centaur."

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Colby Leffler

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