Ursa Major

Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy

Here’s Hubble doing what Hubble does best. Some of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous and stunning images are of…

2 years ago

In the northern skies, flanked by the Big Dipper, lies the Bootes constellation, one of the traditional constellations listed by…

8 years ago

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The Big Dipper is big. Come on, it's right there in the name. But how big is the Big Dipper…

9 years ago

Behind the Big Dipper is something pumping out a lot of extremely high-energy cosmic rays, a new study says. And…

10 years ago

They're out there; tiny, extremely faint and incredibly ancient dwarf galaxies with so few stars that scientists call them 'ghost…

12 years ago

We wanted to spend a few shows talking about some of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky. We’ve…

13 years ago