Please hurry, it's homework! :'(WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a constellation and a pointer star?a constellation is a pattern that is formed in stars. you can spot a few pictures in the stars if you like star gazing.
a pointer star is a star that can guide. like the indians used the stars to guide them in the desert. there are certain stars that point direction. stars were also used to tell the time of the year. the positions of the stars change according to the time of year and season. so, basically, pointer stars are stars that tell you your position, which way to go, or what time of year, the date, and that sort of stuff.WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a constellation and a pointer star?A constellation is a pattern humans see in the random arrangement of stars in the sky.
A pointer star is a prominent star (or group of stars) that can "point" towards another star.
So Ursa Major is a constellation. And some of the stars in that constellation form the shape we call the Big Dipper. And the stars forming the end of the dipper point towards Polaris (the North Star).
The Big Dipper is easy to find in the northern sky and so is an easy "pointer" to find the North Star in the sky.
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