Sirius (disambiguation)

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Sirius is a binary star system in the constellation Canis Major, appearing as the brightest star in the night sky.

Sirius may also refer to:

Businesses

• Sirius Satellite Radio, a North American satellite radio service
• Sirius XM Holdings, a holding company
• Sirius (satellite), communications satellites operated by SES Sirius
• SES Sirius, a Scandinavian satellite operator
• Sirius Systems Technology, a defunct California personal computer manufacturer
• Sirius Corporation Ltd, a UK open-source services company

Music

• Sirius (album), a 1987 album by Clannad
• Sirius (Stockhausen), a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• "Sirius" (instrumental), an instrumental by The Alan Parsons Project from the 1982 album Eye in the Sky
• "Sirius," a song by Mike Oldfield from Tres Lunas
• "Sirius", a song by Visual Kei band Diaura

Products

• Alpaero Sirius, motor glider
• Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius, a 2009 video game
• Ferranti Sirius, 1961 small business computer
• Lockheed Model 8 Sirius, an aircraft
• Mitsubishi Sirius engine
• Quasimidi Sirius, a music synthesizer
• Sirius visualization software, software for modeling molecules
• Sirius (wine), a wine produced by Sean Thackrey

Ships

• SS Sirius, several steamships
• HMAS Sirius (O 266), a Royal Australian Navy tanker
• USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8), a United States Navy support ship
• MV Sirius, a ship owned by Greenpeace
• HMS Sirius
•  New Brunswick, narrowboat conversion design
• RFA Sirius (A345), a coastal tanker in service 1959-62, then with the Greek Navy as Greek tanker Sirius

People with the name

• R. U. Sirius (born 1952), American writer

Fictional

• Sirius Black, a character in the Harry Potter series of books
• Sirius, the newborn son of Ulysse Mérou and Nova in Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes
• Sirius Amory, the namesake character of Claudio Sanchez's The Armory Wars

Other uses

• Sirius (film), a film about the work of Steven M. Greer
• Sirius (dog), a mythological companion of Orion according to Homer
• Sirius (novel), a 1944 novel by Olaf Stapledon
• Slædepatruljen Sirius, a Danish military unit
• Mount Sirius, a prominent peak (nunatak) in the Transantarctic Mountains south of Beardmore South Field Camp (U.S.A.) in north-central Antarctica.
• Sirius Entertainment, a defunct comics publisher
• Sirius, a planet in the game Serious Sam 2
• Eclipse Sirius, an Open Source project of the Eclipse Foundation

See also

• Sirius B (disambiguation)
• Sirius in fiction
• MV Sirius Star, a supertanker
• List of IK Sirius sections, Swedish sports clubs