The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...

Could the nearby star Sirius B explode as a type Ia supernova, like some other white dwarf stars in binary star systems have? Bruce Mason Encinitas, California A type Ia supernova occurs when a ...

With my sextant, I measured the altitude of the star Sirius to be 22°11’. I then went to The Nautical Almanac, where a number of tables helped me compute the declination (similar to latitude ...

The two brightest nighttime stars visible in the Pottsville sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year ...

When the dwarf reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, the star spontaneously detonates in a fantastically bright thermonuclear blast. Nothing remains of the dwarf except debris. The Sirius system ...