Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Imagine looking up into the nighttime sky and seeing a hunter, a bull, a bear, and a queen. With a little imagination, The ...

The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the lookout for the Moon to join the line-up, and for Saturn to 'tag' Mercury in ...

Instead of finding an expected "magnetar" (a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star left over from the core collapse of a young, massive star), "now the question was: How are you going to ...

Yet magnetars appear primarily in young star clusters. A repeating burst discovered ... emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor. Leung, a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship ...

emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor. Leung, a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient at the University of California, Berkeley, hopes eventually to understand the ...

A stronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called ...

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others seem to burst once and go silent. You can produce this sort of sudden surge of ...

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Without a doubt, Orion and his gang have the most extensive collection of bright stars assembled anywhere ... rear end and tail of the constellation Ursa Major, the Big Bear.