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Canopus

noun
1.
Supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky.





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"Canopus" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the tail of the Great Bear, one of the "Banat al-Na'ash," or a star close to the second. Its principal use is to act foil to bright Sohayl (Canopus) as in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... meant a temporary base now and a better one later, when they had blasted the little planet into its new course. He estimated roughly the approximate positions where he would place his charges, using the sun and the star Canopus as ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... Canopus is Womba, the Mad Star, the wonderful Weedah of long ago, who, on losing his loves, went mad, and was sent to the sky that they might not reach him; but they followed, and are travelling after him to this day, and after them the wizard Beereeun, ...
— The Euahlayi Tribe - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia • K. Langloh Parker


Words linked to "Canopus" :   supergiant, carina


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