1) Age-old navigation aid 2) Cepheus neighbor 3) Constellation 4) Constellation of Polaris 5) Constellation, Little Dipper 6) Constellation, Little Bear 7) Constellation, Lesser Bear 8) Little Bear constellation 9) Neighbor of draco 10) Polaris is at its tip 11) Pole star constellation 12) The Little Dipper
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Polaris, the brightest star in the constellation, is a yellow-white supergiant and brightest Cepheid variable star, ranging from apparent magnitude 1.97 to 2.00. Beta Ursae Minoris is only slightly fainter, with its apparent magnitude of 2.08. Also known as Kochab, it is an orange giant star, 16 degrees from Polaris. It and magnitude 3 Gamma Ursae...
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[Chinese astronomy] The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 小熊座 (xiǎo xióng zuò), meaning `the small bear constellation`. ==Stars== The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Ursa Minor area consists of : ...
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[cave] Ursa Minor Cave is part of Sequoia National Park, a naturally formed system of caves in California`s Sierra Nevada mountains. The cave was discovered in August 2006 by four professional cave explorers from the Cave Research Foundation who found a grapefruit-sized hole on a cliff face in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After widening the...
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in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky, seven of whose stars outline the Little Dipper. Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris), at the end of the ... [2 related articles]
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(abbr. UMi, gen. Ursae Minoris) The Little Bear, also often referred to as the Lttle Dipper. Ursa Minor is a constellation near the north celestial pole that is almost completely surrounded by Draco. The stars Beta UMi (Kochab) and Gamma UMi (Pherkad) are often called the Guardi...
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English name: The Little Bear. Genitive name: Ursae Minoris. Visibility: Visible from the UK See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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Ursa Minor The 'Little Bear', the constellation nearest the north pole. It contains the north star, or polestar, which is situated in the extremity of the tail.
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Small constellation of the northern hemisphere, whose brighter stars form the asterism known in America as `the Little Dipper`. The bright pole star Polaris lies at the end of the dipper's handle. Two other bright stars in this group, Beta and Gamma Ursae Minoris, are called `the Guards` or `the Guardians of the Pole...
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the Little or Lesser Bear, the northernmost constellation, containing the stars that form the Little Dipper, the outermost of which, at the end of the handle, is Polaris.
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