Some of the symptoms associated with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) include:1. 1  Infertility: As one of the most emotionally devastating symptoms on the list, infertility can cause a woman to question her role in society.
Its companion, Sirius B, is a star that has already evolved off the main sequence and become a white dwarf. Currently 10,000 times less luminous in the visual spectrum, Sirius B was once the more massive of the two. The age of the system has been estimated at around 230 million years.
The ancient Greeks thought of the constellation Canis Major as a dog chasing Lepus, the hare. The star Sirius is the dogâs nose; the Greeks called it the âdog star.â. The âdog days,â I always thought, were those summer days so devastatingly hot that even dogs would lie around on the asphalt, panting. Many people today use the phrase to mean something like thatâbut originally, the phrase actually had nothing to do with dogs, or even with the lazy days of summer. Instead, it turns out, the dog days refer to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens.