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

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

A look at the top performers in the North Star League for the 2025 high school softball season, with all-league squads for ...

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere you only need to look overhead and toward the north where you will find the seven bright stars that comprise the famous Big Dipper. IE 11 is not supported.

From the Big Dipper, follow the two stars at the end of its bowl — from its base to its top — and extend that line about five times that distance. There you’ll encounter Polaris.

For example, every scout knows how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris) and, from that, their directions around the horizon. To do so, find the two stars of the Dipper's bowl ...

Also called Ursa Minor, all of its other stars are fainter than the Big Dipper’s, so you’ll probably need a pretty dark sky to see it. Polaris is 430 light years from us, and it will appear ...

The two stars forming the outer end of the Dipper's bowl, are known as the "pointer" stars and currently point straight down toward Polaris, the North Star, which is due north. The aim isn't ...

High school football schedules teams in the North Star League Big Dipper and Little Dipper divisions for 2024. The Big Dipper features Alcona, Rogers City, St. Helen Heston and Whittemore-Prescott ...

The Big Dipper’s stars. With an apparent magnitude of 1.79, Dubhe (Alpha [α] ... UMa), it’s one of the “pointer stars” that skygazers use to locate Polaris, the North Star.

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies. Earlier this month, we spoke of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, so this week ...

At around 10 p.m. local daylight time on these warm June evenings, face north and look overhead to see the seven stars that compose the famous Big Dipper. At this time of the year, the handle ...