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Big Dipper

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Big Dipper, familiar configuration of stars visible in the constellation Ursa Major (see Ursa Major and Ursa Minor Ursa Major (ûr`sə) and Ursa Minor [Lat.
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I found the Big Dipper, then this guy Charlie showed me how to find the North Star from there.
The network scans star fields as large as the Big Dipper.
Directly above it is an iconographic depiction of the Big Dipper constellation, thought to be an especially lucky set of stars.
 
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