What constellation is the earth in?

if you went out in space, what constellation would earth be in currently?What constellation is the earth in?The Earth, and the Sun aren't in any constellation. Constellations are patterns of stars as viewed from Earth. Bear in mind that these stellar patterns do not mean that the stars of any constellation are anywhere near each other. They only make a two-dimensional projection of a pattern in the night sky.

The second part of your question would be best answered if we knew in which direction you were viewing the Solar System. The direction of observation would determine the pattern of stars, which, BTW, would be totally different if viewed from any stellar distance. In that case, you'd have to make up a whole new set of constellation patterns and names.What constellation is the earth in?
None, it depends where in space you are. We are several dozen lights years away from most of the stars in the Big Dipper, so maybe an alien astronomer near a nearby star would see us in those stars.

Unfortunately or fortunately the Sun isn't particularly bright and would be barely visible to the naked eye from a 50 light year distance.What constellation is the earth in?It entirely depends on which direction in space you go. Constellations are human inventions, and the earth is considered at the center of them from our vantage point. It's like saying if you walk a mile from your house, which direction will it be? It depends on which direction you walk.What constellation is the earth in?
Which constellations are the nearest stars to Earth in? Lots.

We're not in a 'constellation' as such....those are what we see from our viewpoint on Earth.

We are in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way galaxy which is one of the smaller arms about two thirds of the way from the centre to the edge of the galaxy.

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If you went out into space you'd see the stars almost as they are from Earth till you get a few light years away and then a few stars will have changed position and brightness a lot compared to the background of distant stars but most would be almost unchanged.

How they change in position and brightness depends on which direction you are traveling in.

If you head toward Sirius you'd see Orion and Canis Major changing shape a lot.and getting bigger and then not being those constellations at all, but a load of stars scattered all over the sky.

If you head directly away from Sirius then Orion and Canis Major won't change much except they will get smaller and of course Sirius and the other bright stars in that direction like Betelguise and Rigil would get fainter while stars in the direction you're going in would get brighter.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10385928/ns/鈥?/a> . . . . .What constellation is the earth in?It depends on where you go in space. Constellations are just figments of human imagination, and have no reality in space. Depending on what direction you leave Earth in, Earth could be in any of the 88 constellations.What constellation is the earth in?
Earth is part of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Andromeda Galaxy, Magellenic Clouds (Major %26amp; Minor) and our own Milky Way Galaxy form the Constellation of ANDROMEDA, because it is by far the largest of them.

Even the Milky Way is dwarfed by it.
the Milky Way?