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The Brightest Star in the Night Sky
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. During the week of Monday, February 14, Star Gazer
discusses Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
A view from Starry Night of Sirius as it appears in the February evening sky, to the bottom left of Orion. Sirius is the main star in the constellation Canis Major.
A look back towards the sun as viewed from Sirius, 8.6 light years from Earth. You can see that from Sirius, the sun would appear as a bright star near the well-known "Summer Triangle".
