Ursa Minor

Constellation in the Northern sky, whose name means the "Lesser Bear" in Latin. It contains an asterism colloquially known as the Little Dipper because its brightest stars seem to form a ladle, or dipper shape. The star at the end of the dipper handle is Polaris, the North or Pole Star. Polaris can also be found by following a line through the two stars which form the end of the "bowl" of the Big Dipper, a nearby asterism found in the constellation Ursa Major.