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  Sirius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wilson Observatory discovered that Sirius B was a white dwarf, the first to be discovered.
Sirius was worshipped in the valley of the Nile long before Rome was founded, and many ancient Egyptian temples were constructed oriented so that light from the star could penetrate to their inner altars.
Alternative explanations are either that the description as red is a poetic metaphor for ill fortune, or that the dramatic scintillations of the star when it was observed rising left the viewer with the impression that it was red.
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 Sirius - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius (α CMa / α Canis Majoris / Alpha Canis Majoris) is the brightest star in the nighttime sky, with a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46.
Sirius can be seen from every inhabited region of the Earth's surface and, in the Northern Hemisphere, is known as a vertex of the Winter Triangle.
In 1915 astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory discovered that Sirius B was a white dwarf, the first to be discovered.
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 Sirius - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 2005, using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers determined Sirius B to be 12,000km (7,500 miles) in diameter, with a mass that is 98% of the Sun.
Sirius was commonly thought to cause madness in 18th century England, and is alluded to in John Dryden's religious and political satire "Absalom and Achitophel," in the context of showing that it would plainly be mad to think that Charles II should "displease" the English people (LL.333-334).
Sirius is also the origin of the name for Sirius Satellite Radio (it was thought that this was also the name for Sirius Satellite's mascot, a dog, but later disproven).
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 Sirius Did You Mean sirius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1915 astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory determined that Sirius B was a white dwarf, the first to be discovered.
Sirius was worshipped as Sothis in the valley of the Nile long before Rome was founded, and many ancient Egyptian temples were oriented so that light from the star could penetrate to their inner altars.
In the astrology of the Middle Ages, Sirius was a Behenian fixed star, associated with beryl and juniper.
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Sirius (1944) is also the title of a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon about a dog artificially developed to have superhuman intelligence.
SIRIUS is also the name of a number of satellites operated by Nordic Satellite.
Sirius was a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series.
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 Vega
Vega (Alpha Lyrae) is the lead star in the constellation Lyra, reaching near directly overhead in the mid-northern latitudes, during the summer.
It is a "nearby star" at only 25 light years distance, and together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.
Its spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it is firmly in the main sequence, fusing hydrogen to helium in its core.
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 Sirius Xm Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius (α Canis Majoris, also known as the Dog Star) is the brightest star (−1.46 m) in the night sky.
Interestingly, this means that Sirius B must have originally been the much more massive of the two, since it hasalready evolved off the main sequence.
Sirius was worshipped in the valley of the Nile long before Rome was founded, and many ancient Egyptian temples were constructed oriented so that light from the starcould penetrate to their inner altars.
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 Sirius Definition / Sirius Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius (α Canis Majoris Canis Major (Latin for big dog) is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was additionally in Ptolemy's list of 48 constellations.
At a distance of 2.6 pc or 8.57 light years, Sirius is also one of the nearest starsThis list of the nearest stars to Earth is ordered by increasing distance.
Sirius is the brightest star of the constellation Canis Major, which is Latin for the "Greater Dog.
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 Sirius: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius can be seen from every inhabited region of the Earth (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live)
Sirius is also one of the nearest stars[for more facts and a summary of this subject, click this link] to Earth.
Sirius was worshipped in the valley of the Nile (The world's longest river (4180 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)
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 Vega - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.
spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it is firmly in the
Since more powerful stars use their fusion fuel more quickly than smaller ones, Vega's life time is only one billion years, a tenth of our Sun's.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius (Latin sīrius, from Greek σείριοσ "brilliant"; α Canis Majoris; also known as the Dog Star) is the brightest star (−1.46
SIRIUS is the best satellite radio service with over 120 channels of satellite radio: 65 music radio channels with no commercials, along with 55 channels of sports, news and talk.
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 Isis Encyclopedia Article @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Isis also assimilated Sopdet, the personification of Sirius, since Sopdet, rising just before the flooding of the Nile, was seen as a bringer of fertility, and so had been identified with Hathor.
Sopdet still retained an element of distinct identity, however, as Sirius was quite visibly a star and not living in the underworld (Isis being the wife of Osiris, king of the underworld).
After her assimilation of Hathor, Isis's headdress is replaced with that of Hathor: the horns of a cow on her head, and the solar disc between them.
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She is the daughter of Ted Tonks and Andromeda Black, cousin to Sirius Black, and niece of Narcissa Black and Bellatrix Black.
During the final scenes of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Tonks accompanies Alastor Moody, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Kingsley Shacklebolt in fighting the Death Eaters though she becomes injured in the process and falls unconscious.
Moody tries to revive her but she remains unconscious and is taken to St.
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 Sirius Satellite Radio Definition / Sirius Satellite Radio Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI (http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=SIRIandselected=SIRI)) is a satellite radio (DARSDigital Audio Radio Satellite or DARS (also as SDARS, for Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service, among many variations) is the FCC term for satellite radio, currently being made popular in the U.S. by XM Radio and Sirius.
Music streams on Sirius contain almost every type of music genre imaginable, broadcasting 24 hours a day, commercial free.
Sirius satellite Radio is the newest and best that the satellite consumer technology has to offer.
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 Canopus -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is located well into the southern hemisphere, at a declination of −52° 42' (2000) and a right ascension of 06h24.0m, and is visible on the southern horizon of even the southern US States as far north as Virginia or Kentucky or the African coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Due to its brightness and position away from the orbital plane of our solar system (the latter being in contrast to Sirius' position), Canopus is often used by American space probes for navigational purposes, using a special camera known as a "Canopus Star Tracker" in combination with a "Sun Tracker".
The name "Canopus" has two common derivations, both listed in Richard Hinckley Allen's touchstone of stellar mythology, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning; which is correct is a matter of conjecture.
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 Sirius : Essential Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sirius (α Canis Majoris, also known as the Dog Star) is the brightest star (-1.46m) in the night sky.
The visible star is now sometimes known as Sirius A. The two stars orbit each other with a separation of about 20 AU and a period of close to 50 years.
Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Some facts about Sirius A 3 Some facts about Sirius B 4 See also 5 References and external links History Historically, many cultures have attached special significance to Sirius.
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 North Star - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The bright Vega will be the North Star by AD 14,000.
In comparison the brightest star, Sirius, has a magnitude of −1.46 (assuming that we exclude the Sun at −26.8).
Currently, there is no South Star as useful as Polaris; the faint star σ Octantis is closest to the south celestial pole.
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 sirius - OneLook Dictionary Search
Sirius : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include sirius: act sirius s1, companion of sirius, list of sirius satellite radio channels, r.
Words similar to sirius: canicula, sothis, dog star, more...
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 SCC - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a fictional company from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 Sirius : QuicklyFind Info
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In 1841[?] Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius was actually a double star.
The Greeks also associated Sirius with the heat of summer: the name Sirius is derived from Seirios meaning "the scorcher." This also explains the phrase "dog days of summer".
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 Sirius Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Music is a word whose accepted definitions vary with time, place and culture.
John Cage is the most famous advocate of the idea that music is strictly personal: "There is n...
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 CBC Radio - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CBC Radio Three - youth oriented programming on Internet radio and Sirius Satellite Radio (although some content from Radio Three is also broadcast as weekend programming on Radio Two)
In the French language, the CBC (or, as it is better known in French Canada, Société Radio-Canada), also has three radio divisions, each of which closely corresponds to one of the English networks:
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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WORM HOLES Worm Holes are the hypothetical theoretical connection between a fl hole and a white hole.
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As well as running daily operations at his busy kennel and training school, Ron is also one of the founding members of The Sirius Working Dog Association, a DVG based Schutzhund club, started in October 2003.
As well as running daily operations at her busy kennel and training school, Tammy is also one of the founding members of The Sirius Working Dog Association, a DVG based Schutzhund club, started in October 2003.
Tammy was elected as Secretary for the club due to her business experience and administrative skills.
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 Vega: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For other uses: see Vega (disambiguation) (Vega (disambiguation): more facts about this subject)
Its spectral class (spectral class: in astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based initially on...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it is firmly in the main sequence (main sequence: the main sequence of the hertzsprung-russell diagram is the curve where the majority...
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It is a "nearby star" at only 25.3 light years (148.6 trillion miles) from Earth, and together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.
Its Stellar classification spectral class is A0V (Sirius, an A1V, is slightly less powerful) and it is firmly in the main sequence, nuclear fusion fusing hydrogen to helium in its core.
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