New moon is a week from Thursday, Feb. 8. This is the most convenient time of the year to see the two brightest stars in the sky, Sirius and Canopus. Both stars are near one another and directly ...

One of the coincidences of late winter/early spring evenings is the two brightest stars in the sky, Sirius and Canopus, are close together in the sky. Tonight, March 23, look toward the south at 8 ...

At around 8:30 in the evening this week, anyone who looks skyward will see mighty Orion dominating the southern sky, having just crossed the meridian on his nightly journey westward. Also in this ...

Sirius will move farther away from our sun and Canopus will become the brightest star in our night sky. Learn all about this amazing star and how to view it here. To print your own monthly star ...

Though Sirius is currently twice as brilliant as the next brightest star, Canopus, it wasn’t always this way. The Dog Star is a fairly run-of-the-mill specimen, and only appears so prominent in ...

For the first time in almost a decade, sky-watchers this week will be able to see all five naked-eye planets over the course of one night for several nights in a row. The classical naked-eye ...

Canopus is a blue-white super giant, and it’s 309 light years away. Sirius and Canopus are our sky’s two brightest stars, but Canopus is actually much brighter than Sirius. The prow of the ...

Currently it is 70 million miles (113 million km) from Earth and shines at magnitude -0.6; that would rank it as third in ...

The reappearance of Sirius, linked as it was to the crucial ... While this realization likely happened earlier in history, the Canopus Decree of 238 B.C. is our earliest recorded evidence for ...