Sirius

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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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Sirius

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).

α Canis Majoris A Alpha Canis Majoris Blazing Star Canicula Shira Sopdet Sothis the Dog Star α Canis Majoris α CMa

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Sirian

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