As it does, it will leave the night skies free from moonlight, which serious stargazers view as light pollution.In the week ...

With the constellation Ursa Major high in the sky, late April presents an ideal opportunity to spot the 'Three Leaps of the Gazelle' asterism - a set of three stellar pairings hanging below the ...

With an apparent magnitude of 1.79, Dubhe (Alpha [α] Ursae Majoris) is the second-brightest star in Ursa Major and the 33rd brightest star in the night sky. It is a spectroscopic binary and lies ...

Ursa Major (The Great Bear ... National Geographic Stargazer’s Atlas: The Ultimate Guide to the Night Sky provides a detailed tour through the night sky and its wonders, including maps to ...

But the connection of Ursa Major with a bear goes back millennia ... A narrow crescent Moon lies above Jupiter on 28 May. The night sky at around 11pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Mars is gradually ...

Beginning at the Big Dipper in Ursa Major, follow the handle in an arc ... like our own sun—and it’s the brightest yellow star in the night sky. Though it appears as a single point of light ...

The brightest planets in the night sky ... star of Canis Major), and Procyon (the brightest star of Canis Minor). To the north, look for W-shaped Cassiopeia, along with Ursa Major ("The Big ...

They are Ursa Major, Ursa Minor ... People that far north see the same northern half of the sky dome all night and all year. Now heading south, Polaris will get lower in the sky and will be ...

Bode's galaxy is located some 11.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, and is one of the brightest galaxies to be found in the night sky, with an apparent magnitude of ...

I love photographing the night sky and astronomical events ... It’s nestled above Bootes and to the west of Ursa Major, home to the Big Dipper, in northern skies. To locate the constellation ...

A simulation of the night sky on December 15 shows the evening ... perhaps the easiest constellations to recognize are Cassiopeia, Ursa Major ("The Big Dipper"), and Ursa Minor ("The Little ...