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TIL that the Big and Little Dippers are not constellations. Quality liberal arts education I had.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Di

@johns wow, I had not heard of an asterism* nor did I understand the modern conception of a constellation as a region and they don't overlap. Can't say I feel that bad about my education though, colloquial use seems just fine, both included in en.wiktionary.org/wiki/constel

* the astronomy meaning, not ⁂ which coincidentally(?) yesterday @evan had an obscure poll about cosocial.ca/@evan/114044204060 (I guess not fediverse obscure, reading comments now)

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