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 ...

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Today, we call it the Big Dipper. By connecting stars in the constellation ... but many civilizations have given this asterism their own name for bear. It was "Arktos" to the ancient Greeks.

You can tell spring has officially begun in the Northern Hemisphere just by looking at the stars. Here's how to easily spot the Spring Triangle without a telescope.

Spica, a star in Virgo, is called “Shinjuboshi” (Pearl star) in Japanese. The Big Dipper asterism is known as “Hishakuboshi” (Dipper star). Hoei Nojiri (1885-1977), a Japanese scholar of ...