{"id":796225,"date":"2025-05-19T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796225"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:36:10","slug":"already-know-the-big-dipper-theres-more-to-this-group-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796225","title":{"rendered":"Already know the Big Dipper? There&#8217;s more to this group of stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">\u201cMost people can recognise the Plough\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">VCG\/VCG via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of my earliest stargazing memories involve the same seven stars. Whether you call it the Plough or the Big Dipper \u2013 or even the saucepan, the panhandle or the wagon \u2013 the stars that form this asterism are ones I think many people learn to recognise from an early age. But just because most people can recognise the Plough, and, by extension, Ursa Major, the constellation in which it lies, doesn\u2019t mean we have explored everything in this patch of the sky. And May is as good a time\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26635430-800-already-know-the-big-dipper-theres-more-to-this-group-of-stars\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost people can recognise the Plough\u2026\u201d VCG\/VCG via Getty Images Some of my earliest stargazing memories involve the same seven stars. Whether you call it the Plough or the Big&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}