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Connect-the-dots played across the universe by people who really wanted stories.

means Patterns of stars that humans grouped and named, plus the 88 official sky regions astronomers now use to map the heavens.

from From Latin constellatio, 'a set of stars,' from com- (together) and stella (star) — literally stars stuck together by imagination.

Officially countedExactly 88 cover the entire sky.
Not neighborsStars in one shape sit wildly different distances away.
Borrowed mythsMany trace back to ancient Babylonian sky-watchers.
Always driftingStar motion reshapes every constellation over millennia.
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