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A group of stars (and, by implication, any planets they may have) "travelling together" is called a moving group or association. One locally prominent moving group is the Ursa Major moving group, which includes most of the stars in the Big Dipper (as well as several other stars in Ursa Major and other constellations). The two "ends" of the dipper are not part of the group, but all the ones in the middle are moving in the same direction (towards Sagittarius) and at roughly the same speed. This makes the Big Dipper one of the few asterisms where most of the stars actually are "related" to each other in some way.

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