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Categories: Binary stars, Gliese and GJ objects, Bayer objects, A-type main-sequence stars, Hipparcos objects

Sirius Dog Star Canicula Sothis 9 Canis Majoris

The brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major WordNet 3.0

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The brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Wikipedia

Brightest star in the Earth's night sky. Wikipedia Disambiguation

binary star system in the constellation of Canis Major Wikidata

A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star. Wiktionary

A binary star system in the constellation Canis Major long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer. Wiktionary

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