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What is The Little Dipper?

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The Little Dipper is a group of stars (an asterism) in the constellation Ursa minor (The Little Bear). This group of stars ends at Polaris, the pole star of the Northern Hemisphere. LOCAL ARM The Local Arm is the arm of the Milky Way Galaxy where our solar system is located. It is also called the Orion Arm.

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