While the Big Dipper is visible year round from many ... In fact, Mizar itself is a quadruple star system consisting of two pairs of binary stars. Alkaid (Eta [η] UMa) marks the end of the ...

Go outside about 3 a.m. local time and look for the Big Dipper in the northeastern sky ... a red pencil T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is a binary star system comprising two stars at very different ...

Spica is not a single star, but a binary system, meaning two stars orbit ... A helpful way to find Spica is using the 'arc' of the Big Dipper's handle. Follow the arc to the bright orange star ...