{"id":119164,"date":"2021-02-04T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/see-sirius-the-brightest-star-in-the-night-sky"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:22:19","slug":"see-sirius-the-brightest-star-in-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/see-sirius-the-brightest-star-in-the-night-sky","title":{"rendered":"See Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/see-sirius-the-brightest-star-in-the-night-sky2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out how to spot Sirius, the brightest star as seen from Earth. Learn the mythology behind this dazzling light and how it earned the nickname of the Dog Star.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Garth Battista was in New York\u2019s Catskill Mountains \u2013 at Manhattan Country School \u2013 when he caught the easy-to-see constellation Orion and the star Sirius (far left). Sirius is always easy to see. It\u2019s the sky\u2019s brightest star. Orion\u2019s Belt \u2013 the short, straight row of 3 medium-bright stars \u2013 always points to it. Thank you, Garth!<\/p>\n<p>Although white to blue-white in color, Sirius might be called a rainbow star, as it often flickers with many colors. The flickering colors are especially easy to notice when you spot Sirius low in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how to spot Sirius, the brightest star as seen from Earth. Learn the mythology behind this dazzling light and how it earned the nickname of the Dog Star. View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Garth Battista was in New York\u2019s Catskill Mountains \u2013 at Manhattan Country School \u2013 when he caught the easy-to-see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}