Imagine someone far away. They’re standing on their home planet looking out into space. They see a bright star in their sky and learn that it’s the Sun.
It’s a part of the solar system and has many planets and other objects orbiting it. This person says, “The sun is a star in the ________ constellation.”
What constellation?
There can’t be other systems in our solar system, but there can be other star systems in our constellation.
But what constellation is our Sun in? Where are we?
Think about this.
Stars, they’re like suns. A sun is a star. Our Sun is a star. Constellations are filled with stars. Most of those stars have planets orbiting them.
Those stars and their orbiting planets are separate systems. Our Sun is a star with planets orbiting it. We live on earth, a planet orbiting the sun. Our planet and our Sun are a part of the solar system. The solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy.
But..where are we?
Is our Sun just one of many stars in an unknown constellation unknown to us because we’re in it?
Isn’t it likely there are other stars nearby with planets orbiting them? How can our Sun be the only star when other constellations have so many?
Nooz Buffet 