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18 unusual facts about Ursa Major


Alfred George Gardiner

Invited to choose the name of a star as a pseudonym he chose the name of the brightest (alpha) star in the constellation "the Plough."

Biblical names of stars

Abenezra (1092–1167), however, the learned Rabbi of Toledo, gave such strong reasons for Ash, or Ayish, to mean the Great Bear, that the opinion, though probably erroneous, is still prevalent.

Case Closed: The Raven Chaser

Conan realizes that the crime scenes are ordered like the star constellation Ursa Major, making the last crime scene Shiba Park.

Chilsongmun

The gate takes its name (which literally means "seven stars") from the seven brightest stars in the Great Bear constellation (also known as the Big Dipper).

Daoist meditation

Meditation focused upon starry deities (e.g., the Santai 三台 "Three Steps" stars in Ursa Major) and warrior protectors (e.g., the Xuanwu 玄武 "Dark Warrior; Black Tortoise" Northern Sky spirit).

Exact Holding

The six had worked as freelancers for Grote Beer ("Ursa Major"), one of the first Dutch companies to produce standardized accounting software.

Guangshui

Kuixing is the name of a god who is said to live in the constellation of Ursa Major and who governs literature and writing.

Middle Bass Island

The 805-acre (3.258 km²) island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at the center of a group of 23 smaller islands.

NGC 3738

NGC 3738 is a dwarf galaxy lying in the constellation of Ursa Major, located about 12 million light-years from the Sun, and belongs to the Messier 81 group of galaxies.

Perkūnas

It is a mythologized image of a chariot of Didieji Grįžulo Ratai ("Grand Wheels of Grįžulas"(Ursa Major).

Quechquemitl

Ancient designs include fretwork, a symbol for Quetzalcoatl, the scepter of Quetzalcoatl, related to Ursa Major, an “S” form called an ilhuitl and a cross with branches of equal length which represents the cardinal directions.

Sather Tower

--Professor "of" Greek?-->Greek Isaac Flag, "We ring, we chime, we toll, / Lend ye the silent part / Some answer in the heart, / Some echo in the soul." The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10,500 pound "Great Bear Bell," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission

The movie begins with grizzly bear cub, Griselda, being told by her mother a story about bears from prehistoric times, led by Ursus, who were sent to the stars (Ursa Major constellation) by their leader, in order to watch over the bears on Earth from there and protect them from harm.

Sebastian – An extraterrestrial Star Bear from the Ursa Major constellation who flies to Earth in his CRYOG after hearing Griselda's plea for help.

Seven rays

According to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme, the seven rays are focused to the Solar Logos, through Sirius, the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the Great Bear, and the seven major stars of the Pleiades form the "Galactic Logos," (the consciousness of the "Divine Being" of the Milky Way Galaxy), and have their ultimate origin within the mind of God.

UGC 5497

UGC 5497 is a dwarf galaxy, located about 12 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Väinämöinen

It is after praying to the sun, the moon, and the great bear (the stars, referring to Ursa Major) he is able to escape his mother's womb and dive into the sea.

Ynglism

According to the doctrines of the church, the Aryan peoples and the civilisations they founded, stem from an ancient race who inhabited the now sunken land of Hyperborea, located at the North Pole, and ultimately came on Earth from the Ursa Major constellation.


Mayall's Object

Mayall's Object (also classified under the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa Major.