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There are 88 official "constellations" as recognized by the International Astronomical Union.

Arrangements or patterns of stars other than the official 88 are called "asterisms". For example, there is no constellation called the Big Dipper; what we call the Big Dipper is an asterism, a subset of stars in the constellation Ursa Major.

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