How Does The Zodiac Constellations: Crash Course Kids #37.1 Work?

The zodiac constellations are like a special group of stars that help us know what time of year it is.

Imagine you're playing with your toy train tracks. Each track has a different color, and when the train goes around the whole track, it comes back to where it started. The Earth moving around the Sun is kind of like that train, it takes about 365 days to go all the way around.

Now, imagine there are 12 special groups of stars in the sky, called constellations, and each one is like a different color on your track. As the Earth moves around the Sun, we see different constellations at different times of the year, just like how the train shows you different colors as it goes around.

So when it's your birthday, the constellation that’s in front of us in the sky is connected to your zodiac sign. It's like saying, "Hey, this part of the track is special for you!"

There are 12 constellations because Earth takes about a year to go around the Sun, and we see each one for about a month. That’s why there are 12, like 12 months in a year!