Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, ... It's basically just a pattern of bright stars that aren't official constellations. Sometimes these patterns are just part of a bigger constellation.

This image shows the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. The seven brightest stars (at upper left) are the Big Dipper. Credit: Tony Hallas ...

For much of the world, this pattern has been, if not a bear, some sort of wagon. Shakespeare's "Henry IV" refers to the Big Dipper as Charles' Wain. (A wain is a large, open farm wagon.) ...

They’re being replaced by the spring star patterns of Leo and Virgo, climbing to centre-stage. And spring it is, official: meteorological spring starts on 1 March – hooray!

Below are the 5 easiest constellations to spot in a New England sky this summer, according to a Coos Canyon Camping article. The further north, and away from city lights, you go, the better you will ...

One of the most recognizable features in the spring sky is the Big Dipper, an asterism forming part of the larger constellation Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. This constellation sprawls over a ...

XII) Leo's most famous asterism (a pattern of stars that's not an official constellation) is the Sickle. It marks the head and mane of the lion, and resembles a backward question mark in the sky.

XI) The constellation also boasts the fifth-nearest star system, Wolf 359, which lies 7.86 light-years away. XII) Leo’s most famous asterism (a pattern of stars that’s not an official ...

The main attraction for stargazers this March is coming up this week. It’s the tremendous Venus and Jupiter conjunction. It’s the best planet-to-planet conjunction of the year, as far as I’m ...

NPR's Skunk Bear YouTube Once, the sky was full of stories. Ancient cultures filled the heavens with heroes and monsters, and spent nights telling epics and memorizing patterns in the stars.

The ancient Greeks called the top of the world "the land of the great bear" -- not because they knew of the giant white creatures who lived there, but ...