You can't help but feel sorry for poor Kochab. Shining in Ursa Minor with a magnitude of 2.1, it is the 58th brightest star ...
The Big and Little Dippers are asterisms, for example, though their stars are part of the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. The Winter Triangle, which is especially visible now ...
All the other stars in the sky appear to orbit this star. It is also the tip of the tail of Ursa Minor, the star at the end of the handle of this smaller saucepan. 5. Follow the handle around in a ...