Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is the third-largest constellation in the sky. We explore this well-known constellation in more detail here.

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, form this well-known asterism which is known as the Big Dipper. Photograph by Jamie Cooper.

This image shows the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. The seven brightest stars (at upper left) are the Big Dipper. Credit: Tony Hallas ...

Topic - Ursa Major Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM. Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into ...

A repeating radio burst every 2 hours from Ursa Major reveals a unique white dwarf–red dwarf system, shaking up theories in ...

Astronomers have made a fascinating discovery in the Ursa Major constellation that could potentially challenge our understanding of galaxies and star clusters. The object in question, UMa3/U1, has ...

Some astronomers think that Ursa Major is our oldest constellation, dating back 30,000 years to the time when humans crossed from Siberia into North America, ...

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.