Sirius says goodbye to the evening sky. ... Last updated on May 18, 2023. The constellation Canis Major, the Large Dog, is home to the night’s brightest star, Sirius (right).

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 ...

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 ...

Next to the Sun, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. Although it is bright, at 8.6 light years away from Earth, it is too far away to heat the Earth. Despite that distance, it shines so ...

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 ...