Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is the third-largest constellation in the sky. We explore this well-known constellation in more detail here.

These seven bright stars form the center of the constellation Ursa Major — Latin for "greater bear." The Big Dipper is in the northern sky, and around the world it is associated with the north.

From around +42 degrees north latitude, where I live in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Big Dipper is almost straight up at this time. The rest of the Big Bear constellation does span the zenith ...

This view imagines the Bg Bear moving forward, as the sky rotates from east to west. H.A. Rey’s 1952 book, The Stars: A New Way to See Them puts the end star in the Big Dipper’s handle (known ...

From around +42 degrees north latitude, where I live in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Big Dipper is almost straight up at this time. The rest of the Big Bear constellation does span the zenith, the ...

From around +42 degrees north latitude, where I live in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Big Dipper is almost straight up at this time. The rest of the Big Bear constellation does span the zenith ...