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also called the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky and one of the closest to the Earth. A binary, or double, star, Sirius is also one of the 57 stars of celestial navigation. It is the alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Canis Major, which is located in the Southern Hemisphere. The name Canis Major means larger dog and refers to the imagined shape of the constellation.
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.