The Big Dipper

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Above: Ursa Major. Image Credit: Sydney Hall, 1825

Below: Ursa Major. Image reversed, depicting the Celestial Sphere as viewed “from the outside”. Image Credit: Johannes Hevelius 1690

If we could fly all the way around the stars in the Big Dipper, we would notice they are not all the same distance from us.