The stars of the Big Dipper are a wonderful guide to a handful of splendid galaxies and other deep-sky sights. Above and below the handle of the Dipper, most vividly, lie two stately face-on spiral galaxies that are visible, at least to some degree, in a small telescope. In dark skies, these two nearby galaxies display clear hints of a striking and naturally ubiquitous pinwheel shape that also reveals itself in the clouds of a hurricane or the seed arrangement in a sunflower [Read more…] about Two Fine Spiral Galaxies Near the Dipper’s Handle
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