The North Star, the Pole Star, the Guiding Star, Polaris: Its many names reflect the many centuries humans have gazed northward to it for guidance.

By Julie M. Mckinnon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Nov. 5--Going to 12-hour shifts at Delta's North Star BlueScope Steel LLC was hard for Glenn Dickens at first, but there are benefits to the schedule he and most other production workers favored starting 8 1/2 years ago.

William Shakespeare, it turns out, had it all wrong. He has Julius Caesar declare: "I am as constant as the northern star." Now we know that the North Star - otherwise known as the Pole Star, or Polaris - is far from constant. You can find Polaris by tracing a line from the end stars of the Plough.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a cosmic object that has been known but never before seen: a small, faint companion of the North Star.

* The North Star appears constant while the rest of the stars make their way around the heavens "Second star on the right, straight on 'til morning," are the directions to Peter Pan's Neverland.