Sirius in fiction below)—and even if such were eventually discovered, with an estimated age of 230 million years the system is too young to have fostered the development of life or a complex biosphere. Sirius AB is the alpha star of the constellation Canis Major (the great dog, sometimes styled as Orion's hunting dog), whence its cognomen "the dog star". The most commonly used proper name of this star comes through the Latin "Sirius", from the Greek Σείριος ("Seirios", "glowing" or "scorcher"). The ancient Greeks observed that the appearance of Sirius heralded the hot and dry "dog days" of summer, and feared that
From Mars to Sirius most angry, mechanized portions of the album." Bergman concluded his review by praising "From Mars to Sirius" as an "immense, intense, and very impressive album." Personnel adapted from AllMusic. From Mars to Sirius From Mars to Sirius is the third studio album by the French progressive death metal band Gojira. "Rolling Stone" named the album no. 97 on their list of the top 100 greatest metal albums of all time, and "MetalSucks" named it no. 9 on their list of the 21 best metal albums of the 21st century. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia describes the album as marking a turning point