Astronomically Speaking

Courtesy the Astronomy Picture of the Day archives, tonight we raise our vision skyward...and get to enjoy AllTheSky.com's Till Credner (credner at AlltheSky.com) amazing capture of the constellation Ursa Major's Big Dipper.

(For the uninitiated, the Big Dipper is not a constellation per se, it is just a part of the constellation "Great Bear". Such a highly visible portion of a constellation is termed as an asterism)

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