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Brighter stars have negative magnitudes, so a magnitude '-1' star is 2.5 times brighter than Vega, a magnitude '+1' star is 2.5 times dimmer. The brightest star in the sky is Sirius at magnitude ...

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Its lowest star is also its brightest: blazing Sirius in Canis Major, at the feet of Orion the Hunter. At magnitude –1.4, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.

Let's start by putting some shape on the sky. On a clear night we see about 2000 stars, organised through the ages into mythical character-based patterns called constellations, of which there are 88.

Image of Sirius A, the brightest star in the night sky and second closest star to the Sun, and its fainter companion Sirius B. This image was taken using the Hubble Space Telescope.