This week’s first small-telescope target is Sirius B, the companion to the night sky’s brightest star, Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. American telescope-maker Alvin Graham Clark discovered that ...
Sirius, the Dog Star, is difficult to ignore. Ostentatiously scintillating on the southern horizon right now, the “Searing ...
At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star ... Those in a binary star system may have a strong enough gravitational pull to gather in material from a neighboring ...