Sentences with phrase «magnitude stars sirius»

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And Mars, brightening rapidly, breaks the brilliant magnitude zero barrier from now through May, bested only by Sirius, the Dog Star.

This zero - magnitude star is visible with the naked eye as the third brightest star after Sirius A and Arcturus in Earth's northern skies, and is fifth brightest star overall.

Even during the time of this nearest approach, however, the apparent magnitude of Alpha Centauri will still not surpass that of Sirius, which will brighten incrementally over the next 60,000 years, and will continue to be the brightest star as seen from Earth for the next 210,000 years.

This is about 13 billion times brighter than the next brightest star, Sirius, which has an apparent magnitude of − 1.46.