Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...