This small dwarf star is at its best viewing position in its obit around the primary star Sirius A in, in 2023. The trick in seeing Sirius B is trying to block out the light of the bright star.

The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest to earth are hardly household names the same way Orion's belt is.

Sirius is the king of stellar brightness and is often referred to as the star of winter, although it’s visible every evening from late December into early May.

The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the ...

Sirius is highly visible in the Northern Hemisphere's winter night sky, because the star has a high luminosity, or intrinsic brightness, relative to other stars, and because it's relatively close ...

Though Sirius is currently twice as brilliant as the next brightest star, Canopus, it wasn’t always this way. The Dog Star is a fairly run-of-the-mill specimen, and only appears so prominent in ...

Sirius is special, not so much that it is at the top of the list of the 21 brightest stars in the sky, but it also out-dazzles its nearest competitor, Canopus, the second brightest star by 0.8 of ...

To an untrained eye, the night sky appears very much a mystery. The multitude of stars that join our planets in populating an evening sky are fairly anonymous. The brightest star, and the nearest ...