Editing Sirius (section)

=== Modern significance ===
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Sirius features on the coat of arms of [[Macquarie University]], and is the name of its alumnae journal.<ref name="Macquarie2007">{{cite web |title= About Macquarie University — Naming of the University | work = Macquarie University official website | publisher = Macquarie University | date= 2007| url= http://www.mq.edu.au/about/naming.html |access-date= 27 December 2007 }}</ref> Seven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been called {{HMS|Sirius}} since the 18th century, with [[HMS Sirius (1786)|the first]] being the [[flagship]] of the [[First Fleet]] to [[Australia]] in 1788.<ref name="Henderson1988">{{cite book |title=The Sirius:Past and Present|vauthors=Henderson G, Stanbury M|year=1988 |publisher=Collins|location=Sydney|isbn=0-7322-2447-0|page=38}}</ref> The [[Royal Australian Navy]] subsequently named a vessel {{HMAS|Sirius|O 266|6}} in honor of the flagship.<ref name="RAN">{{cite web | author = Royal Australian Navy | title = HMAS Sirius:Welcome Aboard| work = Royal Australian Navy – Official Site| publisher = Commonwealth of Australia| date = 2006| url = http://www.navy.gov.au/ships/sirius/| access-date =23 January 2008}}</ref> American vessels include the {{USNS|Sirius|T-AFS-8}} as well as a monoplane model—the [[Lockheed Sirius]], the first of which was flown by [[Charles Lindbergh]].<ref name="Lockheed">{{cite web | title = Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Charles A. Lindbergh | work = Smithsonian : [[National Air and Space Museum]] | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | url = https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lockheed-sirius-tingmissartoq-charles-lindbergh/nasm_A19600014000 }}</ref> The name was also adopted by [[Mitsubishi Motors]] as the [[Mitsubishi Sirius engine]] in 1980.<ref name="Mitsubishi2007">{{cite web| title = Mitsubishi Motors history| work = Mitsubishi Motors – South Africa Official Website| publisher = Mercedes Benz| date = 2007| url = http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.za/featuresites/mm_history/Galant.asp| access-date = 27 January 2008| archive-date = 30 December 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071230102112/http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.za/featuresites/mm_history/Galant.asp| url-status = dead}}</ref> The name of the [[North America]]n [[satellite radio]] company CD Radio was changed to [[Sirius Satellite Radio]] in November 1999, being named after "the brightest star in the night sky".<ref name="SiriusSatelliteRadio">{{cite web | url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/57/Sirius-Satellite-Radio-Inc.html | title=Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. – Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. | publisher=Net Industries, LLC. | access-date=22 January 2008 }}</ref> Sirius is one of the 27 stars on the [[flag of Brazil]], where it represents the state of [[Mato Grosso]].<ref name="Araujo2009"/>

Composer [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], who wrote a piece called ''Sirius'', is claimed to have said on several occasions that he came from a planet in the Sirius system.<ref name="McEnery2001" /><ref name="Guardian2005" /> To Stockhausen, Sirius stood for "the place where music is the highest of vibrations" and where music had been developed in the most perfect way.<ref>Michael Kurtz, ''Stockhausen. Eine Biografie''. Kassel, Bärenreiter Verlag, 1988: p. 271.</ref>

Sirius has been the subject of poetry.<ref name="Brosch2008-33"/> [[Dante]] and [[John Milton]] reference the star, and it is the "powerful western fallen star" of [[Walt Whitman]]'s "[[When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd]]", while [[Tennyson]]'s poem [[The Princess (Tennyson poem)|''The Princess'']] describes the star's [[scintillation (astronomy)|scintillation]]:
{{blockquote|<poem>
...the fiery Sirius alters hue
And bickers into red and emerald.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allen|first=Richard Hinckley|url=http://archive.org/details/starnamesandthe00allegoog|title=Star-names and their meanings|date=1899|publisher=G.E. Stechert|location=New York|pages=117–131|author-link=Richard Hinckley Allen}}</ref>
</poem>}}

Throughout the 1990s, several members of the occult group the [[Order of the Solar Temple]] committed mass murder-suicide with the goal of leaving their bodies and spiritually "transiting" to Sirius. In total, 74 people died in all of the suicides and murders.<ref name="Holberg2007-184–189" />