Canopus

Canopus, designated Alpha Carinae, is a bright giant/supergiant star located in the southern constellation of Carina. After Sun Kirby has discovered his popularity in the southern regions, Canopus has been the subject of various jokes involving his predicted appearance in the fourth installment of Meet the Stars, a series of educational music videos by children’s music channel InAWorldMusic. These videos, being the base of three mashups so far, have played a role in Sun Kirby’s star drawings by giving him motivation to draw the exact stars listed in the videos. Sun Kirby’s hopes for Canopus’s appearance have increased drastically when the announcement of Meet the Stars Part 4 was given out on Friday, May 14, 2021. Following the announcement, Sun Kirby had a dream of Canopus making it into Part 4. That motivated him to create this page.

Canopus is known for stealing possessions of other stars to his own advantage. The stars of the Pleiades cluster had learned to ignite oxygen gas and solidified the gas into "firestone," as the stars of the Pleiades call it. They have kept this secret for millions of years, ever since they had built their nest in Taurus. The group of stars used these reactions to cook yams found in Canis Major. That was until Canopus had found a cooked yam floating through space from the direction of Taurus. Finding it tastier than the plant produce around Carina, he decided to cook his food before eating it from now on. Requesting some firestone from the stars of the Pleiades failed, since they refused to hand over the solidified oxygen.

Canopus, feeling a sense of hopelessness, found some odd creatures in a molecular cloud that Canopus figured were "danger noodles," so he took the danger noodles and buried them in some clouds. Canopus convinced the stars of the Pleiades to dig through the clouds by saying that the ripe Carina strawberries were tastier than yams, and could only be found in the molecular clouds in the constellation of Puppis, near Carina. The Pleiades stars unknowingly dug up the danger noodles. Screeching out their alarm calls, the stars of the Pleiades attacked the danger noodles with such force that the solidified oxygen dropped out from their wings. Canopus quickly took the solidified oxygen and flew back to Carina to show his new findings to his constellation.

Altair in the northern constellation of Aquila had traveled to the Carina Nebula after everything she had seen. She tried to ask Canopus politely for some oxygen so she could cook some starfruit, but instead Canopus offered to cook it for her. Flocks of stars surrounded the Carina Nebula, asking for Canopus to share the oxygen with them. Frightened, Canopus threw some solidified oxygen at the flocks. Gacrux from Crux took some blue, ignited oxygen for himself and hid them under his wings, causing the inside of his wings to permanently turn blue. The rest were gathered by Antares and some other stars in Scorpius.

The burning oxygen started a small amount of explosions to happen in hydrogen clouds due to them reacting with the flames, but Altair's efforts stopped the reactions entirely. The stars of the Pleiades decided to build a new nest farther up north, where they are today.

Canopus has also played a role with Altair's position in the sky. In the southern constellation of Carina, Altair had woven many nests out of the molecular clouds and nebulae, which stars would be formed in. Altair had gathered her children and asked Canopus, who had the strength to manipulate air pressure, to give them a force that would send them floating away from the constellation. Canopus fluttered his wings, which created an updraft that would eventually place Altair and her children in the Aquila constellation.