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The Big Dipper is simply a group of stars, that happen to be fairly bright, and more or less in the same direction. If you see a “constellation” – a group of stars that forms some picture – that doesn’t necessarily mean the stars are related to one another. It is likely that some of the stars are several times farther away than others.
