In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that most people cannot distinguish them. The ...

Buried in the heart of the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and easily the most famous group of stars in the Colorado springtime sky, is the seven-star configuration popularly known as the ...

If you can only spot one constellation, it's probably the Big Dipper. Other than being easily recognizable, the Big Dipper is special because it contains one of the first known binary star systems.