Big Dipper

"...Solem e Mundo tollere videntur qui Amicitiam e Vita tollunt..."

(Cicerone)

"...Coloro che vogliono bandire l'Amicizia dalla Vita sono le stesse persone che vorrebbero cancellare il Sole dal Giorno..."

Caption originale:"A well-known asterism in Northern Skies, The Big Dipper is easy to recognize even when viewed upside down. Part of the larger constellation of Ursa Major, the bright dipper stars above are named Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, Megrez, Alioth, Mizar/Alcor and Alkaid.
Of course, stars in any given constellation are unlikely to be physically related. But surprisingly, most of the Big Dipper stars do seem to be headed in the same direction as they plough through space, a property they share with other stars spread out over an even larger area across the sky. Their measured common motion suggests that they all belong to a loose, nearby star cluster, thought to be on average only about 75 LY away and up to 30 LY across. The cluster is more properly known as the Ursa Major Moving Group".