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Pedro de Ursúa (1526 –January 1, 1561) was a Spanish conquistador from Baztan in Navarre. [1] [2] He is best known for his final trip with Lope de Aguirre in search for El Dorado, where he was assassinated in a plot by a fellow officer.
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.
NGC 3198, also known as Herschel 146 [5] is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.It was discovered by William Herschel on 15 January 1788. [6] [3] NGC 3198 is located in the Leo Spur, [3] which is part of the Virgo Supercluster, [7] and is approximately 47 million light years away.
Ursa, a mother of Zuko and Azula in the franchise Avatar: The Last Airbender; Ursa, a girlfriend of Bear in the television series Bear in the Big Blue House; Ursa, a character in the animation series Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears; Ursa, a bear-like race in the franchise Dota. Ulfsaar the Ursa Warrior, a notable character of that race
Mizar, together with Alcor and many of the other bright stars in Ursa Major, is a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group. [24] Mizar may have been the first telescopic binary known to Europeans; Benedetto Castelli in 1617 asked Galileo Galilei to observe it. Galileo then produced a detailed record of the double star. [25]
Early illustration showing how many of the stars in Ursa Major move in a group. The Ursa Major Moving Group, also known as Collinder 285 and the Ursa Major association, is the closest stellar moving group – a set of stars with common velocities in space and thought to have a common origin in space and time.
Uralita is a Spanish construction materials multinational enterprise, founded in 1907 as Roviralta y Cía. Uralita produces insulation , gypsum, roofing and piping systems. It became associated in Spain to its fiber cement products, to the point that uralita is a common name for ( asbestos ) fiber cement in Spain of any brand.
} is a {}-based template to be used at the bottom of articles about astronomical objects beyond the Solar System, located in the constellation of Ursa Major. The template is divided into categories of stars , star clusters , nebulae , exoplanets , galaxies , galaxy clusters , and a miscellaneous "other" category.