Many people grow up believing the Big Dipper is a constellation, but it's not. It's an asterism - a small, eye-catching, connect-the-dots pattern made of stars lying either within a single ...

Here's how to easily find the "North Star:" Find the Big Dipper—seven bright stars—Alkaid (at the tip of the tail, highest in the sky), Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak and Dubhe (at the ...

This Hubble image shows part of planetary nebula Caldwell 2 (NGC 40). Gas is expanding from the central star, which is at the ...

There is 1 North Star - Big Dipper high school girls basketball game in Michigan today. The first game, Whittemore-Prescott vs Rogers City, starts at .