If a modern astronomer describes a faint star as being in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan, the star is
A) somewhere within a particular region of sky having definite boundaries.
B) inside the solar system.
C) in a distant galaxy located in a particular direction from Earth.
D) one of a set of stars that make up a particular "picture," in this case a swan, in the sky.
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