How to find Sirius: Sirius is best seen after sunset in winter. ... Rigel. This relatively young, blue star is the brightest one in the constellation Orion, glowing at the hunter’s left foot.

Sirius. The fourth brightest nighttime object is finally a star. It is Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, ... If Rigel wasn’t 800 light-years away, it would be blindingly bright.

From Sirius, follow a clockwise rotation past Procyon, the Gemini twins Pollux and Castor, the bright, gold-tinted Capella, then southward to ruddy Aldebaran and Rigel, the bright blue star that ...

Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution who last Spring made scientific history with his measurements of the sun's heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, ...

How to find Sirius: Sirius is best seen after sunset in winter. Follow the three stars of Orion’s belt to the east, and you’ll see Sirius as a bright beacon.