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Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor , the lesser bear. [ 1 ]
Alioth / ˈ æ l i ɒ θ /, also called Epsilon Ursae Majoris, is a star in the northern constellation of Ursa Major.The designation is Latinised from ε Ursae Majoris and abbreviated Epsilon UMa or ε UMa.
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The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major, constructed from a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area about 2.6 arcminutes on a side, about one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres. [ 1 ]
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.It has a D 25 isophotal diameter of 29.44 kiloparsecs (96,000 light-years).
The Owl Nebula (also known as Messier 97, M97 or NGC 3587) is a planetary nebula approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. [2] Estimated to be about 8,000 years old, [6] it is approximately circular in cross-section with a faint internal structure.
Ursa Minor (Small Bear), contains the Little Dipper Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ursa constellation .