Gary Pernu, age 11, of Virginia, Minnesota, for his question:

How do you find the Little Dipper?

We can all find the Big Dipper and most of us can use the two stars on the side opposite the handle to point a finger at Polaris, the North Star. When we have done this, we already have located the Little Dipper    or at least one end of it. The Little Dipper is almost a perfect copy of the Big Dipper on a smaller scale. And bright Polaris is the third and last star in the handle of the Little Dipper. The three stars in the curved handle lead you to the four stars that form the rectangular bowl of the Little Dipper'..

The two Dippers are circumpolar constellations that swing in never ending circles around and around the North Star. They face each other so that when one is right way up, the other is upside down. They are placed so that if they were filled with water, one would be able to pour into the bowl of the other.