Bear in astronomy

Usage examples of ursa.

Secondcousin, cruising in the neighborhood of a Cepheid variable down on his charts as 47391L, but otherwise known to the race he was shortly to discover as A Ursae Min.

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The smaller and less vague of them clung to the outer edge of the turquoise Xi Ursae Majoris Sector, beyond the bright beacon of Denebola, on the right of the display as viewed from where Corin sat and about a fourth of the way "north" from its equator.

Ex ipsis devota domus praestantis ab Ursa Ecclesiae, vultumque gerens demissius altum Festa Columna jocis, necnon Sabellia mitis.

Contact, via blink-stat, to be made with His Honor, the First Leader of Ursa Major Sector.

It was immediately recognizable as the heavenly constellation of Ursa Major, better known to friend and foe alike as The Plough.

The whole universe burned with pain, from the Pavo Indus to the Ursa Major Cloud of galaxies.

Then this is Ursa Major or the Big Bear pointing toward the North Star, the one star that appears never to move.

He stopped to let the students check the positions of these three important stars, and identify their constellations: Navi in Cassiopeia, Dnoces at the far tip of Ursa Major, and Regor to the south in Vela.

He looked up and was pleased to see the dented circle of the shaft door tumbling rapidly in the direction of Ursa Major, right in the middle of the star-filled circle.

Knowing not a word of their language, he used a minimum of gestures to indicate the sky, the darkness of night and the stars which formed the Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.

Saturn would naturally be assigned what you call Ursa Major, or—.

The star of Ursa Major was no longer in the ascendant, and he was bartered away, with the master of the first merchant vessel we met, for a couple of game-cocks.

Saturn would naturally be assigned what you call Ursa Major, or&mdash.

Saturn would naturally be assigned what you call Ursa Major, or-“.