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Find the Little Dipper ... If You Can - Space.com  Mar 27, 2009 ... The seven stars from which we derive the Little Bear, or Ursa Minor ... Polaris, the North Star lies at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, whose stars are rather faint. Its four faintest stars can be blotted out with very little moonlight or ... and many other navigators have found them useful in measuring the...
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Find the Little Dipper | Tonight | EarthSky  Jun 6, 2016 ... And Polaris is the last star in the handle of the Little Dipper. The Little Dipper isn't a constellation. It's an asterism, or noticeable star pattern.
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Big and Little Dippers: Everything you need to know | Favorite Star ...  Mar 13, 2016 ... Once you've found the Big Dipper, it's only a hop, skip and jump to Polaris and the ... In turn, Polaris marks the end of the Little Dipper's Handle.
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The Little Dipper: Host of the North Star - Space.com  Dec 18, 2014 ... Polaris, the North Star, lies at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper (lower ... The handle forms the Little Bear's tail, and the dipper's cup forms its flank. ... discovered in 2014 that the star is shining more brightly than before.
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Ursa Minor - Wikipedia  Ursa Minor also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation in the Northern Sky. Like the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper: seven stars with four in its bowl like its partner the Big Dipper. ... The star at the end of the dipper handle is Polaris.
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Betelgeuse will explode someday | Brightest Stars | EarthSky  Jan 26, 2016 ... Someday, the star Betelgeuse will run out of fuel, collapse under its own ... Betelgeuse is often said to represent the right shoulder of the Orion the Hunter. ... from an Arabic phrase that is usually translated as The Armpit of the Giant. ..... are constantly trained on the heavens--millions if you count amateurs!)
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Big and Little Dippers: Everything you need to know | Favorite Star ...  Mar 13, 2016 ... The Big Dipper is part of Ursa Major, the celestial Great Bear. ... of the constellation Ursa Major the Big Bear, these Big Dipper stars outlining...
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Big and Little Dippers: Everything you need to know | Favorite Star ...  Mar 13, 2016 ... The Big Dipper seen in the midst of the northern lights, taken in 2012 by EarthSky Facebook ... Here's the Big Dipper in autumn, when it's descending in the northwest in the evening, .... then it's "it's" not "its" as you have used in your own line! ... Great contribution at least he had some substance unlike you !
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The Big Dipper is Not a Constellation - Today I Found Out  Jan 9, 2012 ... Asterisms, which may be part of a recognized constellation, are not constellations themselves. The Big Dipper is one of the most well-known...
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Star of Bethlehem - Wikipedia  The Star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star, revealed the birth of Jesus to the Biblical ... So he asks his advisors where the Messiah would be born. ... Matthew's account suggests that the Magi knew from the star that the "king of the .... close conjunction between Jupiter and Venus near Regulus on June 17, 2 BC.
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celestial navigation | Astro Navigation Demystified | Page 6  The ancient Greeks named Arcturus the Bear Watcher because it seems to be ... PZ is the angular distance from the Celestial North Pole to the zenith of the .... Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation known as the Little Bear or Little Dipper. ... and the other stars appear to rotate from east to west around the Pole Star...
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jeopardy/243_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  I'M ON CLOUD "NINE" | Jeri Ryan joined the crew on "Star Trek: Voyager" as the Borg with this 3-word ... FOUND IN SPACE | (<http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-03-29_DJ_14.jpg> Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Two stars in the Big Dipper's bowl are called pointer stars because the line drawn through them points to...
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Try Stargazing - National Wildlife Federation  If you drew an imaginary line from the 2 stars at the end of the Dipper's bowl, it would point straight to Polaris, the North Star. If you face Polaris, you are facing...
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Use Big Dipper to find North Star | Tonight | EarthSky  Mar 1, 2016 ... Polaris - the North Star - isn't the brightest star. ... depended on their lucky stars  most especially, the pointer stars of the Big Dipper. ... The two outer stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper always point to Polaris, the North Star.
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Thuban is a former Pole Star | Brightest Stars | EarthSky  May 6, 2016 ... Thuban was the Pole Star some 5000 years ago, when the Egyptians ... now a relatively inconspicuous star in the constellation Draco the Dragon. ... Polaris will be 27'09 (0.4525o) from the north celestial pole at that time (a...
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The North Star: How to Find Polaris - Space.com  May 7, 2012 ... Polaris (the North Star) sits directly above the North Pole. ... Polaris is located in the constellation of Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. ... to Polaris is to use the so-called Pointer stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper, Dubhe and Merak. Just draw a line, between these two stars and extend it out about 5 times, and you...
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Polaris is the North Star | Brightest Stars | EarthSky  May 24, 2016 ... Some assume it's the brightest star in the sky. ... The North Star or Pole Star  aka Polaris  is famous for holding nearly still ... night long, the Big Dipper pointer stars always point to Polaris on any day of the year, and at any time of the night. ... As you travel south, Polaris drops closer to the northern horizon.
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Whassup in the Milky Way?: June 2008  Jun 26, 2008 ... That all-important star is Polaris, the North Star. ... This is because Polaris and the North Celestial Pole are not one and ... It's a fast-spinning but otherwise ordinary white star. ... Kochab (pronounced KOH kabb) is from the Arabic for star. .... Dubhe is the second brightest star in the Dipper, just a tad dimmer...
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Polaris - Wikipedia  Polaris, designated Alpha Ursae Minoris ( Ursae Minoris, abbreviated Alpha UMi,  UMi), commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
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Polaris is the North Star | Brightest Stars | EarthSky  May 24, 2016 ... The North Star or Pole Star  aka Polaris  is famous for holding ... That's because it's located nearly at the north celestial pole, the point ... These two stars outline the outer part of the Big Dipper's bowl. Simply draw a line from Merak through Dubhe, and go about 5 times the Merak/Dubhe distance to Polaris...
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The Brightest Stars - Carnaval.com  Sirius has a magnitude of -1.42, which makes it nine times more brilliant than a ... Ursa Minor or the Little Dipper Constellation points to the North Star although this will ... Polaris can also be found by following a line through the two stars which .... a fainter one which means someone wanted the Big Dog to have company.