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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 ...

Like the Big Dipper, there are three stars that make ... which is a group of stars in a simple cross shape. The other stars in the constellation of Cygnus are extensions of this cross shape.

The summer stars have driven the winter constellations over the sunset horizon, and even the “springy” form of Leo, the lion, has moved into the west. Behind Leo comes brilliant Arcturus, the ...

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 ...

You can spot it by looking for the three stars that make Orion’s belt and then looking for the bright red star, Betelgeuse, which makes up the constellation's shoulder. The Big Dipper will also be ...