Buzz Lightyear will have its constellation: its position in the sky and what it will look like

Now when we want to see the Big Dipper, if we are lucky, looking away a little, we can also see the constellation of the light year. Yes, because the Toy Story character will have its constellation.

“Every great story and every great hero has its place in the stars,” says a voiceover in a video shared by Disney that chronicles the ambitious project. And yes, nothing more literal.

The Lightyear, also known as “Buzz Astral”, was created by a group of specialists and it will be constellation number 89 of modern astronomywhose brightest stars are between 4 and 5 points of magnitude.

East set of 104 stars is found, according to the Disney video, between the Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, Draco and Camelopardalis. If we find it and “connect the dots” we can see the shape of Woody’s best friend.

The stellar idea has to do with the next premiere June 16 (in Argentina) by Lightyear, the next Pixar film that tells the story of the real astronaut who inspired the toy that comes to life in the four Toy Stories.

Lightyear explains why the saga toy has so many fans. It shows how a young test pilot, Buzz, embarks on an intergalactic adventure where he is abandoned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light years from Earth.

“To be clear, it’s not about the Buzz Lightyear toy. It’s the story of the origin of the human Buzz Lightyear the toy is based on, “he warned him when in doubt. Chris Evansthe actor who voices the character.

In turn, the Disney video warns those who “want to be part” of the project, that by downloading an application they can participate to have one of the 104 stars that make up Lightyear.

Who “creates” the constellations?

The question is a bit complicated because, of course, no one puts the stars in the sky at ease and pleasure. Yes, there have been those who have delimited the forms they create together.

First, a refresher: a constellation is the limit in which the celestial vault is divided. Each is made up of a conventional grouping of stars, whose position in the night sky is apparently invariable. Mostly they come from ancient peoples who have decided to tie them through imaginary lines, thus creating virtual silhouettes.

The limits of the constellations we know today, those imaginary lines that form one or the other figure, they were imposed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) from 1928 to 1930.

According to the limits considered by the IAU, there were up to 88 light-year constellations, the smallest of which is the Southern Cross is the biggest, Hydra. There is a “modern chart” that locates the coordinates of all of them.

The delimitation was the product of the work of the Belgian astronomer Eugenio Giuseppe Delporte and published by the IAU in 1930. Before they were included in the new chart, there were minor constellations that were eventually forgotten.