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The answer is not known. A constellation does not have AN orbit. Most constellations consist of a number of astronomical objects which have no astrophysical connection except that they appear to be in approximately the same direction when viewed from the earth. The distances from the earth are so large that there is little apparent parallax between their movement and so they appear to move together. But they may be at vastly diferent distances from the earth and have very different orbits. Constellations may contain galaxies (which look like individual stars until greatly magnified, and these galaxies would orbit the centre of the local galactic cluster. Constellations may also contain galactic clusters (which look to us like single stars) and these orbit the centres of galactic super clusters, and so on ...

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