You can’t be Sirius? Actually, I’m Sirius B

Dan Wild

Sirius is really two stars. A faint white dwarf, Sirius B, is locked in a dance with Sirius A, and it takes 50 years for them to orbit each other. Sirius B used to be a big guy: it was once a red giant. Except it doesn’t have quite the same mass as Betelgeuse, a …

Space Juice: Chapter 18 – An ignorant lesson

Dan Wild

Previous Chapter.. Three days of trudging through sand might only have been two with just Zorgeous, but a couple of Zorgon children accompanied them. Why the Old One allowed them along was anyone’s guess, but the Very Old Testaphant explicitly stated: “And youth shall guide them, through innocence redeemed no journey underfoot will sand forestall.” …