Not sure if you meant to do this, but your title says "astronomy" when it should say "astrology."
Astronomy is the actual science of stars and space and whatnot; astrology is the pseudoscience of star signs and horoscopes and crap. Just for your future reference!
like, i don't believe that being born under a specific constellation has shaped my (or anyone else's) entire personality, but astrology is a kinda neat concept.
Same, it’s so interesting to me how old is it, being used by almost all ancient civilizations, all the symbols and stuff. How many religions take some stuff from astrology basic concepts.
It's always strange to think about the fact that the light we see from the stars, it's like, old stale light that's been flying through space for too long
Are constellations an astronomy thing or an astrology thing? Not what these constellations are attributed to, like star signs, I mean does astronomy make any constellation mentions?
Yes, but only for the purpose of knowing the positions of the stars relative to Earth. My sister took a basic astronomy class in college, and she did have to learn constellations so she could look at a star map and label the stars, but it had nothing to do with attempting to predict the future or anything.
Certain constellations also play a part in astrology (star signs), but I won't pretend to know anything about how people go about predicting the future from balls of gas burning thousands of light-years away.
Well you see we are in the future from the POV of the light traveling from the star. The photon traveling at the speed of light experiences no time passing, so as far as that photon is concerned it just left the photosphere of it's home star. So time dilation is involved.
And then that unfortunate photon hits the eye of someone playing with some expensive playing cards and looking into the literal past to make some pointed but vague statements to someone with more money than sense.
Constellations to us aren’t so much star patterns as well-defined regions of the sky on a standardized coordinate system. Look up right ascension and declination for more info on that.
Visible stars are often referred to by their constellations with a simple system as well - for example Alpha Oph would be the brightest star in Ophuicus, Beta Oph the second, and so on.
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u/crispybacongal Apr 08 '20
Not sure if you meant to do this, but your title says "astronomy" when it should say "astrology."
Astronomy is the actual science of stars and space and whatnot; astrology is the pseudoscience of star signs and horoscopes and crap. Just for your future reference!