Summer is a good time to view the Big Dipper because it's high in the northern sky during the evening. The Big Dipper is not ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the diameter of our sun and 36.7 light years away. Boötes is chasing the Bears with ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

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 ...

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The Big Dipper is one of the most famous star groupings and one that nearly all stargazers instantly recognize. Notice I didn’t call it a “constellation,” because it’s not a constellation.

This week on Star Watch, you will slowly be able to see the moon get a little fuller each night as well as a chance to see the constellation the Big Dipper. As we head through the overnight ...

Probably the most famous is positioned almost directly over our heads this week as darkness falls: the Big Dipper. Officially, the Dipper is not a full-fledged constellation, but an asterism ...