I am a beginner / novice and I have got very little knowledge about astronomy
Please tell me whether 'Planets' revolves around all the 80+ constellations or not
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$\begingroup$ Possible duplicate of astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/13086 $\endgroup$– user21Feb 29, 2016 at 23:07
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$\begingroup$ Planets (for the most part) revolve around individual suns. A constellation is just a group of stars that are in the same part of the sky - as viewed from Earth. So the question, as written, really just doesn't make any sense. $\endgroup$– Donald.McLeanMar 2, 2016 at 15:18
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Planets does not go through all the constellations.
The path the Sun and the planets (approximately) follows is called the ecliptic. The constellation this line goes through is known as the Zodiac, but the current number is actually 13.
A star map, with the ecliptic drawn:
answered Feb 29, 2016 at 16:45
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$\begingroup$ Thanks for the info. Can you post a better image of this? Could not read out what's written over there? $\endgroup$ Feb 29, 2016 at 18:42
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$\begingroup$ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/… is a larger version of this image. Note the image is SVG and can thus be theoretically expanded to any size. $\endgroup$– user21Feb 29, 2016 at 23:08
