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sirius
/ˈsɪɹi.əs/
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What does sirius mean?
proper noun
- A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
- The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
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The star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any more dazzled.
There are three stars in his belt which, as is well known, lie in a straight line pointing to Sirius.
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Will they go from one planet to another, from Jupiter to Mercury, and after awhile from one star to another, from the Polar to Sirius?
Negative magnitudes have clearly to be contemplated; thus Sirius is of magnitude minus 1.4, and the sun is of magnitude minus 26.
Whenever one is observed, which has the diameter of Sirius or of Jupiter, we are sure of seeing the brilliant meteor succeeded by a great number of smaller ones.