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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Once darkness falls, cast your eye in the direction of north. In fact, our target tonight lies extremely close to the North ...

July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it’s worth losing some sleep over because it’s now prime time for summer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polaris, the North Star, lies at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper (lower left), whose stars are faint compared to those of the Big Dipper (upper right). (Image credit: Starry Night Software) ...

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.

Last week in Starwatch we did a big celestial bear hunt for the constellation Ursa Major. That’s the formal Latin moniker for the Big Bear. The Big Dipper that we know and love in the northern ...