Possible answers: -- planets -- meteors -- asteroid fields -- constellations
Q: Answer the following question given this paragraph: The stars that make up a constellation appear close to each other from Earth. In reality, they may be very distant from one another. Constellations were important to people, like the Ancient Greeks. People who spent a lot of time outdoors at night, like shepherds, named the constellations. They told stories about them. Pictured below is one of the most easily recognized constellations ( Figure below ). The ancient Greeks thought this group of stars looked like a hunter. They named it Orion, after a great hunter in Greek mythology. Q: What do you call the patterns and groups of stars in the sky that ancient people observed and made stories about? A:
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constellations