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OCR: INSIDE A CONSTELLATION ALTHOUGH THE STARS in a constellation Betelgeuse seem to lie in the same plane, they are all at different distances from the Earth. If we could view Orion from elsewhere in space, its star pattern would be different from the one we see from the Earth. POINTS OF VIEW VIEW FROM THE EARTH A constellation is Orion Nebula a two-dimensional representation of a widely scattered Rigel group of stars. Betelgeuse SIDE VIEW The Portion of the OF ORION Earth celestial sphere 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 DISTANCE IN LIGHT YEARS