It lies about 80 light-years from Earth. Phecda (Gamma [γ] UMa) is one of the stars that form the Dipper’s bowl. Its magnitude of 2.44 makes it the sixth-brightest star in Ursa Major.

and I teach visitors at my shows to use the "pointer stars" in the bowl of the Big Dipper to find it. These two stars in the Big Dipper point you directly to Polaris. If you are facing Polaris ...

Clear skies in the North East increase the chances of spotting up to 120 shooting stars an hour tonight as the Quadrantids ...

Applebee's and Chili's may not be steakhouses, but both offer a few affordable steaks on their menus. We tasted and compared ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

it is statistically likely that if you've ever watched a Christmas movie that has a shooting star, it likely came from Ursids. The shower peaks on the evening of Dec. 22 from the Little Dipper ...

Sophomore star Davion Thompson is the type of player ... Lemont’s Gabe Sularski, Alanas Castillo and Matas Gaidukevicius form a three-headed monster. And with guard EJ Mosley leading the way ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

This celestial display, originating from Comet 8P/Tuttle, will radiate from the Little Dipper constellation ... which is located near the star Beta Ursae Minoris (Kochab) in the constellation ...