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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

Sathish Kumar
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  • Possible duplicate of https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/13086 –  Feb 29 '16 at 23:07
  • 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. – Donald.McLean Mar 02 '16 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:

star map

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  • Thanks for the info. Can you post a better image of this? Could not read out what's written over there? – Sathish Kumar Feb 29 '16 at 18:42
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hipparcos_Catalogue_equirectangular_plot.svg is a larger version of this image. Note the image is SVG and can thus be theoretically expanded to any size. –  Feb 29 '16 at 23:08