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Canopus

NOUN
  1. supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky

How To Use Canopus In A Sentence

  • It was no use then regretting the lateness of his departure: he could not have foreseen these accidents, and it was still a good four hours before the "Canopus" took off. Reach for Tomorrow
  • The Egyptian city known as Canopus seems also have been a goddess temple, as the Greek historian Strabo 63BCE-21CE considered the place to be notorious for wild sexual activities. Archive 2008-03-01
  • That would allow me to determine if the Canopus is the problem. VideoHelp.com Forum
  • It shines as bright as it ever does, at magnitude - 0.5; only two stars, Sirius and Canopus, are brighter.
  • One great Persian book, The Lights of Canopus, of Sufi provenance, was derived from it, centuries after its origins.
  • With any luck, the "Canopus" should not take off for another two hours at least. Reach for Tomorrow
  • At the same moment, he wirelessed Canopus, laboring up the coast 250 miles to the south, “I am going to attack the enemy now.” Castles of Steel
  • How he would laugh at his fears when he strolled into his already reserved stateroom in the "Canopus," and felt that peculiar quiver as the phantom drive hurled the great ship far out of this system, back to the clustered star-clouds near the center of the Galaxy-back toward Earth itself, which he had not seen for so many years. Reach For Tomorrow
  • Drifting through the still air from a source clearly not more than a mile away came the sound of a landing-field tractor, perhaps one of the machines loading the "Canopus" itself. Reach for Tomorrow
  • Pictured above, a large stone statue appears to ponder the distant Large Magellanic Cloud before a cloudy sky that features the bright stars Canopus and Sirius.
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