Polaris will continue to be the pole star for a few thousand years to come, until Earth's rotational axis wanders inexorably away on its 26,000-year wobble. 2 - Thuban ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

Ask an average person to name a star and chances are they’ll come up with the North Star. Without a doubt that’s one of the best-known stars in the night sky, but “North Star” is just a ...

Draw an imaginary line from the magnitude 2.3 star Merak, which forms the outer base of the 'bowl', through Dubhe, the star positioned as the 'pouring tip' of the asterism.

Simply draw an imaginary line from Dubhe - the tip of the bowl in the Big Dipper asterism - through and past Polaris. The next bright star on that path will be Errai. 5 - Alderamin ...