While the Big Dipper is visible year round from many ... In fact, Mizar itself is a quadruple star system consisting of two pairs of binary stars. Alkaid (Eta [η] UMa) marks the end of the ...

Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to ... which means "new star" in Latin. It's a binary star system with a cool, red giant star and a smaller, hotter white dwarf star orbiting ...