Many people grow up believing the Big Dipper is a constellation, but it's not. It's an asterism - a small, eye-catching, connect-the-dots pattern made of stars lying either within a single ...

A star in the beautiful constellation of Corona Borealis will ... hours after dark and look to the east-northeast. Find the Big Dipper high in the northeast and use the curve of its handle to ...

Sky Heroes [GRADE 3 AND UP] Decide whom you would honor with a place in the sky if we updated the constellations ... Find a star whose light left it during the year you were born Big Dipper ...

actually from closest to the star Kochab. Ursa Minor is a much smaller, dimmer constellation than the much more well-known Ursa Major—the Great Bear, which contains the famous Big Dipper—but ...