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Sirius is a binary star consisting of a main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B. The distance between the two varies between 8.2 and 31.5 astronomical units as they orbit every 50 years. [25]
The closest system is Alpha Centauri, with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from Earth. The brightest, most massive and most luminous object among those 131 is Sirius A, which is also the brightest star in Earth's night sky; its white dwarf
The first star to have its distance to Earth measured after the Sun. Also the 15th nearest stellar system to our solar system. B K7V [59] ... Sirius A 8.6 ± 0.04 ...
The well-known binary star Sirius, seen here in a Hubble photograph from 2005, with Sirius A in the center, and white dwarf, Sirius B, to the left bottom from it. A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.
The distance from Earth to the star Sirius is then approximately 0.54 siriometers. [3] The unit was proposed in 1911 by Carl V. L. Charlier, [3] who worked on stellar statistics. [4] Charlier originally used the symbol 'sir' [1] but the symbol 'Sm' has also seen use. [5] The siriometer never gained widespread usage.
Its name comes from the Greek word for "scorching" or "searing". Sirius is also a binary star; its companion Sirius B is a white dwarf with a magnitude of 8.4–10,000 times fainter than Sirius A to observers on Earth. [32] The two orbit each other every 50 years. Their closest approach last occurred in 1993 and they will be at their greatest ...
star system Sirius: seen from Earth ... star Alpha Centauri B: seen from Earth +1.86: ... seen on Earth on 19 March 2008 from a distance of 7.5 billion light-years.
First black hole to have an accurate parallax measurement of its distance from our solar system B K [4] 0.7: Early K giant star 8100 ± 1000: 2.49 ± 0.30: GRO J0422+32: Binary star system with orbit t=5.09 h 04 h 21 m 42.723 s +32° 54′ 26.94″ 1992 Aug 5 A BH: 3.97 ± 0.95: B M1: 0.5 ± 0.1: 8150: 2.5: MACHO-96-BLG-5: Candidate isolated ...