Most of us can spot the group of stars known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. But there’s more to explore here, says Abigail ...

In order to find the ancient Three Leaps of the Gazelle asterism you must first locate the Big Dipper, which is high in the ...

And front and center right now appears one of the most familiar and easy-to-find star groupings: the Big ... Dipper's handle past Arcturus and you'll soon come to Spica, with more of a bluish ...

One of my favorite star groupings of springtime was the Big Dipper. This group of seven stars is part of a larger constellation ... Nearby, bluish-white Spica is estimated to lie about 250 ...

Then, locate the bright star Phecda in the bowl of the Big Dipper, along with the magnitude +3.33 star Coxa (also known as Chertan, or Theta Leonis) in the constellation Leo. Roughly half way ...