Sirius
The brightest star in the night sky, a hot white star with a faint white dwarf beside it.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude −1.44, the brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 8.6 light years
- Kind of star
- White star, spectral type A0
- Light it gives out
- About 23 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Canis Major, where it is α Canis Majoris
- Catalogue number
- HIP 32349
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources