alioth
Speech parts
1. alioth - Noun
2. Alioth - Proper noun
Meaning
A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
According to one version of their myth, the first hunter (Alioth) is carrying a bow and arrow to strike down the bear.
In addition, a rotation axis at an angle to the magnetic axis may be spinning different bands of magnetically sorted elements into the line of sight between Alioth and the Earth.
The intervening elements react differently at different frequencies of light as they whip in and out of view, causing Alioth to have very strange spectral lines that fluctuate over a period of 5.1 days.