Connect the stars
Tap the stars in the right order and the figure appears. Then turn them, and find out they were not close together at all.
Tap the next starIf you get it wrong, nothing happens: just try again.
Why they fall apart when you turn them
The stars of a constellation look close together, but almost never are: they are only in the same direction, as seen from here. One can be eighty light-years away and the one next to it a hundred and twenty, which is forty light-years farther. As long as you stay on Earth there is no way to tell, because the sky flattens everything against us as if it were painted on a dome.
The figures are our own invention, and it is wonderful that they are: someone, thousands of years ago, looked at seven dots and saw a ladle in them. From somewhere else in the Galaxy those seven dots make nothing at all, and there would be other figures that we will never see.
Positions from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, distances from SIMBAD (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg).
