How far is the little dipper away from Venus?

Answer 1

The "Little Dipper," Ursa Minor, is, for all practical purposes, as far from Venus as it is from the earth, because the distance between planets like Earth and Venus is negligible compared with the distances to the stars.

The stars of the dipper in Ursa Minor are not at a uniform distance, so it isn't easy to define how far away the little dipper is. Polaris, at the end of the dipper handle, is 430 light years away.

Answer 2

i am gonna really irritate the more serious with this answer, but...

look at your globe. picture the Little Dipper at the North Pole in the middle of the ice.

picture Venus at the equator.

Venus follows closely to a line across the sky called the ecliptic. If you go out some night with someone with some astronomy background, he could point out the constellations along the ecliptic or even some planets. Venus and Mercury, being closer to the Sun then the Earth, never stray far from the Sun, but always close to that line.

The little dipper is always making a tight circle around the North Pole... the pole-star Polaris, is actually a part of that constellation.

So... how far is the little dipper away from Venus? half the sky

Answer 3

The first answer is correct. However as far spot in sky, Venus being in a planet is always in the zodiac belt, where the constellations of the zodiac can be found. Like all planets, it moves around among them. Planet comes from greek word that wanderer or something like that. The little dipper is always due north in the sky, the star at the tip of the tail being Polaris also called the north star. that star is always due north. That constellation is never near the zodiac path.

Answer 4

Venus is a planet in our solar system, never more than about 160 million miles from us. The little dipper is made up of stars that are trillions of miles (i.e., light-years) from us, and trillions of miles from each other.