Back to Discover
🚀

Ursa Major

space Maturity 7-9

Look at the night sky.

Ursa Major and Polaris.svg
Ursa Major and Polaris.svg
You can see a big bear. It is made of bright stars. Some people call it the Big Dipper. It helps you find the North Star. Can you find it too?
Ursa Major - Ursa Minor - Polaris.jpg
Ursa Major - Ursa Minor - Polaris.jpg

47 words
🖼️ Images & Media (16)
File:Flag of Alaska.svg
Flag of Alaska.svg
File:Ursa Major and Polaris.svg
Ursa Major and Polaris.svg
File:Ursa Major IAU.svg
Ursa Major IAU.svg
File:M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
M101 hires STScI-PRC2006-10a.jpg
File:Ursa Major from King City.jpg
Ursa Major from King City.jpg
File:Starry Night Over the Rhone.jpg
Starry Night Over the Rhone.jpg
File:Ursa Major constellation Hevelius.jpg
Ursa Major constellation Hevelius.jpg
File:Crab Nebula.jpg
Crab Nebula.jpg
File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Ursa Major.jpg
Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Ursa Major.jpg
File:Ursa Major shown on a carved stone, c.1700, Crail, Fife.jpg
Ursa Major shown on a carved stone,...
File:Earth-moon.jpg
Earth-moon.jpg
File:Ursa Major - Ursa Minor - Polaris.jpg
Ursa Major - Ursa Minor - Polaris.jpg

+ 4 more

Up Next
🚀
Big Dipper
Space
→
More to explore

🔗 What's this?

Concepts mentioned in this article

Tool Europe Human Science Asia

✨ What else?

Related topics you might enjoy

Big Dipper 0% Ursa Minor 0% Universe 0% Spica 0% Pyxis 0% Moon 0%

🔬 Go deeper

More advanced topics to explore

Big Dipper Capella Argo Navis

🪜 Step back

Simpler topics to build understanding

Ursa Minor M81 Group Leo Minor Lepus (constellation)
📚 Content adapted from Wikipedia | Readability: FK 10.0 | Vital Level 4