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TIL that the Big and Little Dippers are not constellations. Quality liberal arts education I had.
@mlinksva After posting I also remembered that I did in fact enroll in an Astronomy course in undergrad to fulfill a general ed requirement, but barely went. To think of all the pedantic corrections I could've been making in conversations all these years. Happy to learn "asterism" though.
@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 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/constellation#Noun
* the astronomy meaning, not ⁂ which coincidentally(?) yesterday @evan had an obscure poll about https://cosocial.ca/@evan/114044204060474016 (I guess not fediverse obscure, reading comments now)