Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?

here's Orion 's stars....



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another way of looking at it...



http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aowK_RJBzSA/TQ鈥?/a>Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?No. Constellations are attempts by humans to group stars in the sky by their apparent closeness to each other, and totally ignore the fact that stars are distributed in three dimensions in space. A good example is the Big Dipper (the Plough if you're British): Of its seven stars, five are at roughly the same distance, part of a loose star cluster, but the other two are almost twice as far away.Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?
No, for example the big dipper. [starting at the handle and going counterclockwise]



Alkaid - distance [from Earth] 110 ly.

Mizar - Distance 59 ly. / Alcor - 82 ly.

Alioth - 62 ly.

Megrez - 65 ly.

Phecda - 75 ly.

Merak - 62 ly.

Dubhe - 75.ly



Maybe this is a bad example, because it is a coincidence that two of these unrelated stars are the same distance. However I just took a lot of trouble researching this and I am not going to try again.Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?No.



The reason they all look equally bright is because some are alot bigger then others, older then others etc. One of those stars could be 2.5 million Ly's away and another could be 3.5 million Ly's away but the latter could be 10 times the size of the former so they shine equally. (That's a very basic example)
No, and not only are they different distances, but they can be moving in different directions relative to the earth. In some thousands of years, the familiar constellations we now see may no longer be recognizable because the stars' positions relative to each other could be very different.Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?No at all. They appear, to us here on earth, to form certain "shapes" that we call constellations. If we were looking in the same area from a different area they would look different. The stars within the constellation are varying distances away from earth.Are all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?
Since "Poor Taste" went to so much trouble to track down an example, I'll do that too.



Orion's Belt consists of the following three stars:

Alnitak - distance 800 light years

Alnilam - 1300 light years

Mintaka - 915 light years
no, they all are not away from us in the same distance. For instance, you can take our the orion, all the stars present in that constellation are not away 4rm us in da same distanceAre all the stars in a constellation away frm us in the same distance?
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no all the stars in constellation are not away from us in the same distance ....
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