THE Plough, also known as The Big Dipper, is one of the most well-known monuments in the night sky. It earned its named for its shape, with four bright stars making up a bowl and three bright ...

Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

Also known as the Plow or Plough. The Little Dipper ... A popular asterism formed by the bright stars Sirius, Betelgeuse and Procyon from the constellations Canis Major, Canis Minor and Orion.

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven stars known as the Big Dipper (or, in other countries, the Plough ...

Instead, it is known as the Plough, due to its resemblance to ... It is the brightest star in the constellation. Its apparent magnitude of 1.77 makes it the 31st brightest star in the night ...

The constellation of the Big Dipper/the Plough. This one’s actually not a constellation, but an “asterism”—a familiar shape of stars—that will already be known to a lot of you.

All of the constellations shown in modern star atlases are officially approved ... In Great Britain, it is better known as the Plough. But the Big Dipper visualized as a ladle is strictly an ...

The Plough, sometimes known as The Big Dipper ... which is a group of stars in a simple cross shape. The other stars in the constellation of Cygnus are extensions of this cross shape.

This constellation is hard to see in city ... or in the British Isles as the Plough. All but one of the stars in the Big Dipper are second-magnitude in brightness, making this pattern easy to ...

The ancient Chinese carved up the heavens into hundreds of tiny groups of stars – the only constellations they had in common with the West were Orion and the Plough. The Australian Aboriginals ...

The Plough is made up of seven stars: Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Alioth, Megrez, Mizar, and Alkaid. Orion's belt, or The Hunter constellation, is not part of the Plough - and the Plough isn't part of ...