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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.
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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.
Pi 1 Ursae Minoris [14] is a common proper motion binary star [15] system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. The pair have apparent visual magnitudes of +6.58 and +7.31, with a combined magnitude of 6.1. [2] They are located about 71 light years from the Sun.
Bedrane Adam' is a binary star [6] system in the northern circumpolar constellation Ursa Minor. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.80. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.14 ± 0.42 mas [1] as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located roughly 460 light years from the Sun.
Lambda Ursae Minoris (λ UMi, λ Ursae Minoris) is a star in the constellation Ursa Minor.It is an M-type red giant with an apparent magnitude of +6.38, making it very faintly visible to the naked eye under the best observing conditions.
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]
Zeta Ursae Minoris, which is Latinized from ζ Ursae Minoris, is a single [12] star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor, forming the northernmost part of the bowl in this "little dipper" asterism. [13] The star has a white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.28.