![]() ![]() Similarly, some brighter stars are farther away than dimmer stars. Our binocular vision fails us at such great distances. Two stars that appear very “close” together in the sky might be (in real terms) much farther apart than two stars on opposite sides of our sky. It’s useful to remember that star maps show us how things look from here, not how they are. Given the scales of the universe, there really isn’t a better vantage point to draw a map, or a better way to draw it (anything that tried to represent actual distances, even at greatly reduced scale, would be unusable and probably larger than the planet). That’s kinda like star charts, which “map” how the stars and other celestial objects look from our particular vantage point, through the portal of the night sky on tiny spaceship earth. It’d be quite a different map than those top-down street views we’re all used to navigating with. ![]() Imagine making a map of New York City when you can only view it from the Hoboken waterfront. Star Maps or Star Atlases are peculiar things. ![]()
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