To spot the Southern Cross, viewers use two "pointer stars," Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, wrote The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC). That's in part how skywatchers can separate ...

Like the Big Dipper, whose Pointer stars point toward Polaris (the North Star), the Southern Cross indicates the location of the South Pole of the sky and as such is often utilized by navigators.

Most people tended to respond with “bogan”, “xenophobia”, “racism” and someone even mentioned half-jokingly that she crossed the road when she saw someone with a Southern Cross tattoo..