Go back to the Big Dipper. To find our next constellation, poke a hole in the Dipper’s bowl, ... Dotting the question mark with a distinctive blue-white color is magnitude 1.3 Regulus.

Officially, the Dipper is not a full-fledged constellation, but an asterism — just a part of the constellation known as Ursa Major, the Great Bear. And indeed, Ursa Major is a big bear.

Use the Big Dipper's handle to point you to the correct part of the sky. The star is normally far too faint to see with the unaided eye. But its nova will be as bright as the constellation’s ...

Constellation Of The Week: Corona Borealis Follow the arc of the Big Dipper’s handle to find orange-hued Arcturus in the eastern sky. It anchors the constellation Boötes, the Herdsman.

The Big Dipper is what is known as an asterism - the term given to a recognizable formation of stars that belongs to an even larger grouping of stellar bodies called a constellation. The Big ...

Continue following the arc of the Dipper’s handle past Arcturus and you’ll soon come to Spica, with more of a bluish-white color. In other words, follow the arc to Arcturus, then speed on to ...

Week of April 13-19, 2025 Spring has sprung in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, and with it come some pleasant evenings perfect for stargazing. And front and center right now appears one of the ...

Starry night sky with Ursa Major constellation or the Great Bear and the Big Dipper constellation (GETTY IMAGES) The Big Dipper, a part of the constellation Ursa Major, is now rising in the ...

For the past decade, these signals have been transmitting radio emissions to Earth for about two hours each day, seemingly coming from the Big Dipper constellation.

Scientists investigating mysterious radio signals coming from outer space have finally uncovered where they might be coming from.. For the past decade, these signals have been transmitting radio ...

To see them in the UK, look Northeast towards the Big Dipper constellation. The Quadrantids' radiant - the point where the meteors appear to emerge from - is the now-defunct constellation of ...

It’s an asterism — a small, eye-catching, connect-the-dots pattern made of stars lying either within a single constellation or in neighboring constellations. In the case of the Big Dipper, it ...