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Ursa Minor (Latin for 'Lesser Bear', contrasting with Ursa Major), also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation located in the far northern sky.As with the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper: seven stars with four in its bowl like its partner the Big Dipper.
NGC 6217 is a barred spiral galaxy located some 67 million light years away, [3] in the constellation Ursa Minor. It can be located with a 10 cm (4 in) or larger telescope as an 11th magnitude object about 2.5° east-northeast of the star Zeta Ursae Minoris. [4] The galaxy is inclined by an angle of 33° to the line of sight along a position ...
NGC 3172 (also known as Polarissima Borealis [1]) is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is the closest NGC object to the north celestial pole. [1] Discovered by John Herschel in 1831, it is about 285 million light-years away and about 85 thousand light-years across. [3] Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 3172.
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NGC 6251 is an active supergiant elliptical radio galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor, and is more than 340 million light-years away from Earth.The galaxy has a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus, [3] and is one of the most extreme examples of a Seyfert galaxy.
Keep an eye on the sky during the early morning hours on Sunday to catch a glimpse of the Ursids, the final meteor shower expected to peak this year. ... also known as the Ursa Minor constellation ...
Kochab / ˈ k oʊ k æ b /, Bayer designation Beta Ursae Minoris (β Ursae Minoris, abbreviated β UMi, Beta UMi), [10] [11] is the brightest star in the bowl of the Little Dipper asterism (which is part of the constellation of Ursa Minor), and only slightly fainter than Polaris, the northern pole star and brightest star in Ursa Minor.
Eta Ursae Minoris (Latinized from η Ursae Minoris) is a yellow-white hued star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.. This is an F-type main-sequence star of stellar classification F5 V with an apparent magnitude of +4.95, making it faintly visible to the naked eye. [10]