Research Management Guidelines A guide in managing research initiatives in the national, regional, schools division, and school levels to further promote and strengthen the culture of research in basic education, improve its fund sourcing mechanisms, and put in place additional safeguards related to research dissemination, utilization, and advocacy ...
The reason why the star is called dog star is because the pictogram of the god Osiris depicts the star as his dog. A physical reason for the starâs attribution to the god would have been the fact that the heliacal rising of the Sirius marks the flooding of the Nile, which was attributed to the fertility of the land.
Type A Stars. Sirius, more accurately Sirius A, the Dog Star, is about twice the mass of the sun, about 1.7 times the size, and 25 times brighter. It is the brightest star in our skies, and one of the closest at 8.6 light-years away. It is quite young; about 200 to 300 million years old.