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    Ursa Minor (Latin: 'Lesser Bear', contrasting with Ursa Major), also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation located in the far northern sky. As...
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    "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear. In antiquity, it was one of the original 48 constellations...
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    Ursa Minor Cave is part of Sequoia National Park, a naturally formed system of caves in California's Sierra Nevada. The cave was discovered in August 2006...
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    The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory, in the United States, during the Palomar Sky Survey...
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  • The following lists of constellations are available: IAU designated constellations – a list of the current, or "modern", constellations Former constellations...
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  • Ursa Minor or Ursa minor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ursa Minor (little bear) is a constellation of stars. Ursa Minor may also refer to: Ursa...
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  • constellation Ursa Minor, the Small Bear constellation HMS Ursa, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy Blackmagic URSA, a digital movie camera Ursa, Illinois...
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  • This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Ursa Minor, sorted by decreasing brightness. List of stars by constellation ESA (1997). "The Hipparcos...
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    Polaris (category Ursa Minor)
    Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It is designated α Ursae Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Ursae Minoris) and is commonly...
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    reasonably close to the pole, and it appears that the entire constellation of Ursa Minor, in antiquity known as Cynosura (Greek Κυνόσουρα "dog's tail"), was used...
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    an Ursa Major album with the material that was closest to completion, and a second Ursa Minor album later on. Plans continued to change, though; Ursa Major...
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    brightest star of the constellation Ursa Minor (known also as Little Bear and as the Little Dipper). Ursa Minor has traditionally been important for...
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    Serpens Caput Taurus Triangulum Ursa Major Ursa Minor Vulpecula The North Star, the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, has been used extensively...
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    Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (disputed, considered by some not a galaxy), Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy, Draco Dwarf Galaxy, Carina Dwarf Galaxy, Sextans Dwarf Galaxy...
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    Beta Ursae Minoris (category Ursa Minor)
    the constellation of Ursa Minor), and only slightly fainter than Polaris, the northern pole star and brightest star in Ursa Minor. Kochab is 16 degrees...
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  • album, Ursa Minor (B-Sides compilation), was scheduled to follow Ursa Major, but the idea was later scrapped in favor of a new studio album. Ursa Major's...
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  • Sagittarius Scorpius Sculptor Scutum Serpens Sextans Taurus Telescopium Triangulum Triangulum Australe Tucana Ursa Major Ursa Minor Vela Virgo Volans Vulpecula...
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  • According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Ursa Minor is located in Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán) The name of the western...
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    Celestial pole (category Ursa Minor)
    The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere...
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    guide is published by "Megadodo Publications", a publishing company on Ursa Minor Beta, and it is written and edited by many characters throughout the series...
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    Bordering constellations Boötes Hercules Lyra Cygnus Cepheus Ursa Minor Camelopardalis Ursa Major Visible at latitudes between +90° and −15°. Best visible...
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    broadly meant those places where the 'bear' constellations (Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and Ursa Minor, the Little Bear) were high in the sky. Thus the word...
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  • day. Cloudpuff - A Sunsparkler who makes the designs of the clouds. Ursa Minor - Ursa Major's mischievous niece. Queen Scowlene (voiced by Tress MacNeille)...
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    the Big Dipper comprises the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major. Another is the asterism of the Southern Cross, within the constellation...
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  • Ursa Dwarf may refer to: Ursa Minor Dwarf Ursa Major I Dwarf, a satellite of the Milky Way Galaxy, discovered in 2005 Ursa Major II Dwarf, a satellite...
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    constellations Ursa Minor, Draco, Camelopardalis, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Auriga, Boötes, and parts of Ursa Major, Canes Venatici, Leo Minor and Hercules....
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    Big Dipper (category Ursa Major)
    is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third...
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    Callisto (mythology) (category Ursa Major)
    was seduced by Zeus and eventually transformed into the constellation Ursa Minor was named Phoenice instead. According to Ovid, it was Jupiter who took...
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  • /ˈeɪzə/ Puppis ξ Puppis Azmidi Alternatively rendered Asmidiske. /ˈæzmᵻdi/ Ursa Minor 8 Ursae Minoris Baekdu IAU new 2019 South Korean proposal; named after...
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  • Ursa Major I Dwarf (UMa I dSph) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that orbits the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2005 within the Ursa Major constellation...
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