Here’s why we call this time of year the ‘dog days’ of summer

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Here’s why we call this time of year the ‘dog days’ of summer
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To the Greeks and Romans, the “dog days” occurred around the time Sirius appears to rise alongside the sun

“This is a very human tendency,” she said. When we don’t know the origin of a phrase, we come up with a plausible explanation.Countless stars dot the night sky. Learn how these celestial objects form, how they are classified by brightness and temperature, and what happens when stars die.

In Athens, for instance, Sirius will rise around the middle of August this year. But farther south, it’ll happen earlier in the year; farther north, it’ll happen later. There’s another reason that the dog days don’t correspond neatly with the heat: The stars in Earth’s night sky shift independently of our calendar seasons.

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