It is a small, faint constellation located in the northern sky between Leo and Ursa Major (the Great Bear). In 1870, British astronomer Richard A. Proctor renamed Leo Minor as Leaena, meaning ...

It’s an asterism — a small, eye-catching ... In the case of the Big Dipper, it’s part of the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. While the Big Dipper is visible year round from many ...

Thank the ancient Greeks for giving us the majority of our official 88 constellation names recognized ... get dolphins and flying fish, great and small dogs, a whale, swan, crane, crab, and ...