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Alcor
Alcor is a white main sequence star of spectral type A5V located approximately 81 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. With an apparent visual magnitude near 4.0, it forms a close naked-eye visual pair with Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper. The two stars were historically used as a vision test across multiple cultures. Though once thought to be unrelated, Alcor and Mizar ap...
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Alkaid
Alkaid, designated Eta Ursae Majoris, is a blue-white main-sequence star located at the tip of the handle of the Big Dipper in Ursa Major. It is approximately 104 light-years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of around 1.86, making it one of the brightest stars in the asterism. Unlike the other six Dipper stars, Alkaid is not a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group. With a surface temperatu...
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