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A constellation is one of 88 officially defined regions of the celestial sphere, while an asterism is a recognizable star pattern that may be part of one constellation or span several.
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Patterns arise from projection: three-dimensional star positions are collapsed into angular directions on the sky.
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Parallax and proper-motion measurements show that stars in a visual pattern can occupy very different distances and move independently.
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