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Could Star Signs mean something different if applied to areas Not on Earth?

Constellations only look as they do when veiwed from a certain point. Eg, on Earth looking up. If they Look Different veiwed from elsewhere in space, do their meanings change also?

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1. Without intending offence. To astronomers they don't mean anything here so they mean even less elsewhere. You are correct Constellations only work on a 2-D viewing anlge from Earth the stars in them are often light years apart.
2. Constellations were derived out of the imagination of mankind . To put a Symbol of figures of life in the stars of the night sky . And in doing so those names of the constellations opened the door way to modern astronomy in the ability to have a universal understood reference point in the night sky to look for that one star . Or cluster of stars . The Big and Little Dipper one has The North Star and is easy for any one to look at easily to have a starting point to use in that night sky .
3. depends on how far away we are seeing it from. Star are really far away, so if we see them from mars or other nearby planet, there shouldn't be much different. But universe is really vast, and if you are realllllyyy far away, then yeah they can appear different. About whether they will mean different? Not an astrologist :D
4. our star signs are unique for earth, as soon as you leave solar system their shapes change rapidly. i can imagine the night sky over Bester for example, a planet of Proxima Centauri, most of the constellations we know should be slightly changed overthere, but there can be unchanged ones too, since only 4.22 lightyears away. so, as you go away their meanings change too.