Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Ursa Minor and Polaris . One of the first star-hopping journeys I made when I started appreciating Ursa Major was to Ursa Minor (the Little Bear). Start by drawing an ... Minor constellation, ...

URSA MAJOR adorns the sky — obvious, glittering, clearly defined, a constellation about which there can never beany doubt. Every one is familiar with it. Even those people who ‘really know ...

Ursa Minor and the North Star. If you draw a line between the two stars at the dipper's edge and keep going, ... Between these two constellations is the exact center of our galaxy, ...