I actually remember a couple of diagrams in a science book way back in elementary school, so we’re talking 70s here, showing the Big Dipper today and what it would look like in 50,000 years.
It was a kind of weird feeling as a young boy “seeing” change to something considered so static, and all the deeper considerations from that.
I've played with Celestia and had it draw the constellations, then zoomed around the galaxy and seen how they got distorted as I moved away from Earth and saw them from different angles. Really drove home that the constellations are three-dimensional arrangements, not flat.
It was a kind of weird feeling as a young boy “seeing” change to something considered so static, and all the deeper considerations from that.