Big Bear, Little Bear

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In astrology, bears have a special place because there is a constellation that takes its name from bears. Planetary Companions to Three Evolved Intermediate-Mass Stars: HD 2952, HD 120084, and omega Serpentis".

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The little bear is playful, mischievous as kids usually are; and the little one wants to grow up quickly so as to enjoy the perks of being an adult. Diogenes identifies these as the constellation of Ursa Minor, which for its reported use by the Phoenicians for navigation at sea were also named Phoinikē.

In this tattoo both the ears, upper portion and two legs of this bear is covered with black ink and the remaining portions are covered with white ink. T Ursae Minoris is another red-giant variable star that has undergone a dramatic change in status—from being a long-period (Mira) variable ranging from magnitude 7.

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Ursa Minor is colloquially known in the US as the Little Dipper because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper ( ladle or scoop). There are a lot of children's books set in the snow and sea, but this is one of the most beautiful depictions I've seen. The constellation also contains an isolated neutron star— Calvera—and H1504+65, the hottest white dwarf yet discovered, with a surface temperature of 200,000 K. The northerly nature of the constellation means that the variable stars can be observed all year: The red giant R Ursae Minoris is a semiregular variable varying from magnitude 8.The black bear is reading a book and the white bear is sitting beside him and sucking one of his cheeks. Later Zeus set them in the sky, but their tails grew long from their being swung up into the sky by the god. Its distance has been calculated as 5,000±800parsecs (16,300light-years), which puts its location in the galactic halo.