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#Look towards the stars full#

In China, Japan, and Korea, it's a ladle.

Various cultures see the Big Dipper as something different.

In Danish, they call it "Karlsvogna" or Charles wagon. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Big Dipper is called "Plough," which derives from Nordic stargazing in which the Big Dipper was believed to be the chief god, Odin's, wagon or chariot.

Other Native Americans saw the Big Dipper's bowl as the bear's flank and its handle as the bear's tail.

The stars of the handle were three warriors chasing it. Some Native Americans saw the bowl of the Big Dipper as a bear. Phecda is known as the "thigh of the bear." It is located to the South of Megrez and makes up part of the bow.

It is the dimmest of the seven stars of the Big Dipper. Megrez is the star that connects the tail to the base of the bowl.It actually consists of two double stars. Mizar is next on the handle after Alkaid. It is a hot star that means "the leader." It is the third brightest star in Ursa Major and six times bigger than the sun. The tip of the Big Dipper's handle is called Alkaid.The brightest star is Alioth, which is the third star on the handle, closest to the bowl. The last two stars of the Big Dipper's handle are called the pointers.The entire Big Dipper looks somewhat like a kite, with the string being the handle and the bowl being the kite itself. There are 4 stars that make up the Big Dipper's bowl (it looks like an irregular square). There are three stars in the Big Dipper's handle organized in a line. The Big Dipper is shaped like a bowl and a handle. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode, 4 April 1802.Spot the Big Dipper. Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!” “May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, “It shows you exactly how a star is formed Ī cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way,Ī sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.” “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

#Look towards the stars full#

“There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.” “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” We are all just stars that have peoples names.“ “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.“ “Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.“ Yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.“ “I will love the light for it shows me the way “New stars offer to the mind a phenomenon more surprising,Īnd less explicable, than almost any other in the science of astronomy.“ “The stars are the land-marks of the universe.“Įssays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews with Addresses and Other Pieces, 1857. “Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty,īut the sight of the stars makes me dream.“ “A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.“ “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.“ “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.“ Be curious.Īnd however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. “Remember to look up at the stars and now down at your feet. How often do you turn your eyes to the stars? Which answers are you looking for, stargazing? Every person has their own reasons for that, but some great minds have shared their thoughts to inspire you to live, love and create.