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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.
The cave has since been named "Ursa Minor," because of the large bear skeleton found in the cave. The cave was featured in the September 2007 issue of National Geographic magazine and has attracted many scientists and researchers interested in finding new species of troglobites , organisms that live in the complete darkness afforded by caves.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Ursa Minor, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes
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.
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 called the North Star or Pole Star.
Ursa Minor in Chinese astronomy; W. W Ursae Minoris; WD 1337+705; WISE 1506+7027; Z. Z Ursae Minoris; Zeta Ursae Minoris This page was last edited on 31 July 2023, at ...
RU Ursae Minoris is a binary star system in the constellation Ursa Minor.Its apparent magnitude ranges from 10 to 10.66 over 0.52 days as one star passes in front of the other relative to observers on Earth. [3]
T Ursae Minoris (T UMi) is a variable star in the constellation Ursa Minor, located 2′ 30″ west-southwest of 3 Ursae Minoris toward the western border of the constellation with Draco. [ 8 ] Properties