How can you find the north star in space?

Answer 1

It is easy to locate in the sky because the two stars opposite the handle in the bowl of the dipper in the constellation Ursa Major (Big Dipper), which are called the Pointers, point to the star Polaris.

Answer 2

As long as you are somewhere in the vicinity of earth, you can find it quite easily by first locating the big dipper. Look at the cup of the dipper, at the two stars opposite the handle on the cup. Using these two stars, draw a line up out of the dipper and you will come to a relatively bright star (it's not the brightest star, something like the 50th brightest) high in the sky. This is polaris, the north star! It is part of the little dipper, the end of the handle, in fact, though the little dipper's stars are relatively faint, so they can be hard to spot.

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Answer 3

use the big dipper but rememer the north star is NOT the brightest star in the sky

Answer 4

first you find the big dipper and its in line with two of those stars you really nee to have someone point it out

Answer 5

in space you would need to align yourself with the galactic coordinates, unless you were close to our star, then it would look the same. In that case you would use the big dipper and it's handle curves to point to it.

Answer 6

it's the very tip of the littlle dipper handle along with what others have already pointed out

Answer 7

Use the pointer stars of the Big Dipper.

Nice diagram: http://www.astropix.com/HTML/C_SPRING/URSAS.HTM

Answer 8

you face north.