These are the stars of the Little Dipper as seen from Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbour, about 4.2 light-years away. You can see that the bowl of the Little Dipper looks distorted.

As we move farther from our solar system, this warp increases, and the seven stars in the Little Dipper make a pattern that doesn't resemble a dipper at all.

Click here to view the Little Dipper from Arcturus, which is about 40 light-years away from Earth. Clearly the Arcturians would have quite a different name for this star grouping! They would probably not even group the same seven stars together. Our constellations exist only when they're seen from our solar system.