Top tips for stargazing How to spot famous constellations and asterisms The Plough Ursa Major Ursa Minor Cygnus - a summer constellation Orion - a winter constellation There's nothing better ...

Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky ... bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear. In antiquity, it was one ...

What Canis Major lacks in size, however, it more than makes up for in brilliance. It’s the sixth-brightest of all the constellations. It contains five of the 100 brightest stars. Only Ursa Major ...

In the case of the Big Dipper, it's part of the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. While the Big Dipper is visible year round from many places, its orientation in the sky changes through the ...

As the winter constellations head into the sunset, Mars struggles to avoid the same fate. May Day finds the red planet on course to glide between the bright stars Procyon, in Canis Minor, to the ...