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Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above the eastern horizon. That's the famous "arc to Arcturus" star-hop. Rising in the east-northeast will be ...
The handle of the Big Dipper curves and points to the bright orange star Arcturus. Arcturus is the bright star in Boötes, which resembles a kite or ice cream cone. If you continue the curve from ...
No, the star that opened the great Exposition reached in from its perch nearly 216 trillion miles above Chicago. Its name is Arcturus. Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in our night sky ...
brightest star in all the heavens and lies only about 37 lightyears from us. It’s an immense star — a red giant, we call it — about 25 times larger, and about 170 times more radiant, than ...
Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above the eastern horizon. That's the famous "arc to Arcturus" star-hop. Rising in the east-northeast will be ...