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Sirius: the sky's brightest star, named for outshining everything like an overachiever.
means The common name for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, found in the constellation Canis Major (the 'Greater Dog').
from The name comes straight from its constellation — Canis Major, Latin for 'Greater Dog' — so Sirius became 'the Dog Star' as its chief, blazing eye. The ancient Greeks and Romans noticed it rose with the sun during the sweltering weeks of midsummer, and blamed it for the heat; those days became the 'dog days' of summer, a phrase still used long after anyone remembers it's about a star.
- true id
- actually Sirius, in Canis Major
- dog days
- named summer heat after its rise
- binary secret
- has a dim white dwarf companion
- why bright
- close neighbor, just 8.6 light years