Is Sirius part of the Milky Way? Does it have any known planets?
Thomas Steiner
Greendale, Wisconsin
Sirius is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere. In order to see a pointlike star with your naked eye, it must be relatively close to us; this means that all the stars you can see in the night sky are within the Milky Way Galaxy. Resolving individual stars in other nearby galaxies, such as Andromeda in the Northern Hemisphere or the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the Southe