If a star is described as being in the constellation Leo, a modern astronomer knows that it is
A) one of a few individual bright stars making up a crude picture (of a lion) in the sky.
B) in a specific region of the sky bounded by definite lines of right ascension and declination.
C) somewhere within the image of a lion in the sky, which itself is outlined by bright stars.
D) somewhere in a particular region of the sky, having definite boundaries.
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