Travellers through the ages have used the constellation and the pole star to find directions during the night. Imagine you are a space traveller. Would you be able to use the same constellation to find your way through space. explain your answer ?
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yes I am able to to constellation to find my way through space.
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Depends on where you are going. Currently, we do use star finding to orient spacecraft: as another commenter noted, Canopus is the preferred star for this, as it is the highest/lowest above the average orbital plane of the planets around the Sun.
But the stars can tell you what way you are going, not where you are. Earth-based navigators noticed this themselves — that because they lived on a spherical planet, they could use the direction to Polaris
But the stars can tell you what way you are going, not where you are. Earth-based navigators noticed this themselves — that because they lived on a spherical planet, they could use the direction to Polaris
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