A constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star.
1Consider the spiral galaxy NGC 3198, in the rather nearby Ursa Major constellation.
2The same can be said of Megres, in Ursa Major, and Caph, in Cassiopeia.
3There were star charts, seasonal views of Ursa Major and Orion and the Southern Cross.
4Bootes, also called Areas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to constellation of Ursa Major.
5It is high in the northern sky in the circumpolar constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
6The gruffness of Ursa Major should never be likened to that of the Sage of Chelsea.
7There is Ursa Major up there, nearly overhead.
8This figure is made up of seven conspicuous stars in the constellation Ursa Major, the ''Greater Bear.''
9He was called the " Ursa Major," or Great Bear.
10Doctor Samuel Johnson, who nowise resembled Ursa Major, was the president of the College at that time.
11So the big yellow eye, just to the right of Epsilon Ursa Major, that was Alpha Centauri.
12Sirius, and Orion, and Ursa Major.
13Let us turn to the exquisite spiral in Ursa Major; how different its aspect from that of the other!
14If you find me cheek-by-jowl with Ursa Major when you come back, make a pun and he will go.
15Spiral nebula in Ursa Major (Ritchey).
16One derives his pedigree from Aeneas, another from Brutus, a third from the star by the tail of Ursa Major.
Translations for Ursa Major