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 Translation for 'Ursa Major' from English to Icelandic
SYNO Great Bear | Ursa Major
stjörnfr.
Stóribjörn {k}
Ursa Major
stjörnfr.
Karlsvagninn {k}
Ursa Major
Partial Matches
stjörnfr.
Litlibjörn {k}
Ursa Minor
tón.
dúr {k}
major
langás {k}major axis
umbylting {kv}major reforms
mennt.vísindi
aðalgrein {kv}
major [Am.]
meiri háttar vandamál {hv}major problem
bróðurpartur {k}major part
mennt.
aðalgrein {kv}
major subject
aðalleið {kv}major traffic pathway
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Usage Examples English
  • His play "Rockets in Ursa Major" had a professional production at the Mermaid Theatre in 1962.
  • Eratosthenes also mentions a variation in which the virginal companion of Artemis that was seduced by Zeus and eventually transformed into the constellation Ursa Major was named Phoenice instead.
  • "Arktikos" comes from "Arktos", the Greek name for the constellation of the Great Bear Ursa Major, visible only in the Northern Hemisphere, which comes from the ancient Greek word ἄρκτος (...), which means "bear".
  • The stars of Canes Venatici are not bright. In classical times, they were listed by Ptolemy as unfigured stars below the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.
  • Mizar, in Ursa Major, was observed to be double by Benedetto Castelli and Galileo.

  • The Masonic initiation of D'Annunzio his testified by the choice of Masonic symbols for the flag of the Regence of Carnaro like the Ouroboros and the seven stars of the Ursa Major.
  • Ursa Major, along with asterisms that incorporate or comprise it, is significant to numerous world cultures, often as a symbol of the north.
  • The Big/Great Dipper is the American English term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major (The Plough in British English).
  • Zeus averted their imminent tragic fate by transforming the boy into the constellation Boötes, called Arctophylax "bear guardian" by the Greeks, and his mother into Ursa Major (Greek: Arctos "the bear").
  • The best approximation is made using the leading edge of the "Big Dipper" asterism in the constellation Ursa Major.

  • The M81 Group is a galaxy group in the constellations Ursa Major and Camelopardalis that includes the galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82, as well as several other galaxies with high apparent brightnesses.
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