Is it like the 5th or 3rd largest constellation?
I just wanted to know.Ursa Major is what largest constellation?--Third-largest constellation in the sky--------------------Ursa Major
Third-largest constellation in the sky, in the north polar region. Its seven brightest stars make up the familiar shape or asterism of the Big Dipper or Plough. The second star of the handle of the dipper, called Mizar, has a companion star, Alcor.
Two stars forming the side of the dipper bowl further from the handle act as pointers to the north pole star, Polaris. Dubhe, one of them, is the constellation's brightest star.
Many of the stars in this constellation are moving through space at the same speed and in the same direction. Sirius and several other stars in different parts of the sky share this common motion and so belong to the 鈥楿rsa Major moving group鈥?
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Ursa+Majo鈥?/a> -------------Ursa Major is a large sprawling constellation, the third largest in fact. It's mainly known as the home of the Big Dipper (UK: the Plough), certainly the best known asterism in all the heavens. The constellation offers a number of objects, some well known, others rather obscure, and one star that has recently been in the news as having at least one "temperate" planet circling about it. http://www.dibonsmith.com/uma_con.htmUrsa Major is what largest constellation?3rd behind Hydra and Virgo
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