{"id":93,"date":"2026-07-21T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aj-website-pi.local\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:03:04","slug":"sirius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/sirius\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sirius is a blue-white main sequence star in the constellation Canis Major. It is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name means &#8216;Scorching&#8217; in Greek. The Sirius system Is composed of two stars, a blue-white main sequence star and a white dwarf. The white dwarf is smaller than Earth, while the main sequence star is at least twice the size of the sun. Sirius is a future Southern pole star, taking its turn around 66,270 AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astronomical data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sirius A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 1.71 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 2,386,444 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 2.06 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance (in Light Years): 8.61 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: A0mA1 Va (Blue-White)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sirius B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 0.008098 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 11,272 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 1.01 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: DA2 (White Dwarf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirius is a blue-white main sequence star in the constellation Canis Major. It is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name means &#8216;Scorching&#8217; in Greek. The Sirius system Is composed of two stars, a blue-white main sequence star and a white dwarf. The white dwarf is smaller than Earth, while the main sequence star is at least twice&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/sirius\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sirius<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-sequence-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-canis-major","category-white-dwarfs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}