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[–] tombear66 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Yes, they will change. Most of the stars we see have likely already burned out , we just won't know it for millions of years because of how far away they are. Our constellations have also changed since the beginning of time.

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[–] usul 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Most of the stars you can see with your naked eye aren't already burnt out. The furthest away star you can see is less than 17,000 light years away. Under normal conditions, you're likely not looking at anything past 1000 light years. Lots of the stars you see are within 100. Sirius is less than ten. If most of these stars in the sky were already dead, constellations would have changed drastically over thousands of years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightest_stars

With a telescope, you can see millions and billions of light years, and in the case of those which are more than a few billion years old, they are likely already dead.

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[–] tombear66 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Quite right. Thanks for the clarification, I was mashing them all together there wasn't I?

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[–] Alias_Unknown 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ghost stars. A really interesting though train there.

To expand on your second point, the stars ever so slowly move based on our solar systems movement through the milky way.

Finally, the constellations are nonsense created through superstition and pareidolia. If you look at the stars from any location besides earth. Those constellations disappear.