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

But before we go on a star-hopping tour from the Big Dipper, let’s take a look at the story behind the Dipper itself and meet the seven stars that we join to draw it in our mind’s eye.

For most stargazers, the Big Dipper is probably the most important ... To find the North Star, just draw an imaginary line between these two stars and prolong it about 5 times; the line will ...

(Bob King) No matter when you look at the Big Dipper you can draw a line from the Pointers to Polaris and visualize it as the hour hand of a celestial clock with Polaris at the center. The hour is ...