Jessica Rickman.  Brightest star  “Scorching” or “Sparkling”  “Dog Star”  Appears low in the sky.

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Jessica Rickman

 Brightest star  “Scorching” or “Sparkling”  “Dog Star”  Appears low in the sky

 Canis Major  January through March  Observers thought it was a UFO

 1.8 times the Sun’s diameter  8.7 light years away  White Main Sequence Star

 1930, first white dwarf discovered  Sixth closest star to Earth  Binary System

 Ancient Egyptians thought that Sirius was the cause of the annual Nile River flooding.  “Osiris, whom Sirius may have represented, was a god of life, death, fertility and rebirth of plant life along the Nile.”

 Earthsky. Deborah Byrd. Feb. 19, Earthsky Communications Inc. April 20, 2012.

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