| Re: satelites and stars
Sirius, the Dog Star, is the brightest star (after our sun of course). It's bottom left of Orion and Orion's belt points down to it. Apparently it's 25 times brighter than our sun, which isn't saying a lot - there are many others much brighter, but it appears bright to us because it's so close (in astronomical terms that is) at 8.3 light years away. That means the light from the star we can see today left just before we went out and partied for the Millenium. Compare that to the Andromeda Galaxy which can be seen with the naked eye near Pegasus which is more than 2 million light years away! Can't imagine what sort of partying was going on then. |