Sirius (disambiguation)

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Sirius may refer to several topics:

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Business and Industry 3 Telecommunications 4 Arts and Literature 5 Animals, People and Vessels

Astronomy

• Sirius (α Canis Majoris, also known as the Dog Star) is the brightest star (−1.46^m) in the night sky

Business and Industry

• Sirius Software was a now-bankrupt publisher of games for personal computers in the 1980s
• Sirius Systems Technology was a PC manufacturer in the 80's
• Sirius Entertainment is the name of an independent comic book company
• Mitsubishi manufactures the Sirius automobile engine

Telecommunications

• SIRIUS is the name of a number of satellites operated by SES SIRIUS
• Sirius Satellite Radio is the name of a satellite radio (DARS) company, unconnected to the above satellite system

Arts and Literature

• "Sirius" is a well-known track from The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 album Eye in the Sky
• Sirius B is an album released by Therion
• Sirius was a symphonic black metal band from Portugal
• Sirius is an SF magazine
• Sirius was a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series
• Sirius Black is the name of a character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels
• The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Sirius is the name of a fictional planet from Power Rangers: SPD
• Sirius (1944) is the title of a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon about a dog artificially developed to have superhuman intelligence
• Sirius (planet) is a fictional planet in the Power Rangers Universe.
• Sirius Sector is one of the Empire's important administrative divisions in Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire.

Animals, People and Vessels

• Sirius was a racehorse who won the 1944 Melbourne Cup
• Sirius was a PAPD canine who perished in the September 11, 2001, attacks
• R. U. Sirius is a writer and cyberculture icon
• Sirius was an aircraft produced by Lockheed.
• HMS Sirius is the name of a number of former Royal Navy warships
  • HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet to sail to Australia in 1787
• USNS Sirius is the name of one of the United States Navy's combat stores ships, decommissioned in 2005.

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