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

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 ...

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 ...