Star
Sirius
Sirius is a white star 8.60 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 9 years ago, shining 23 times as bright as the Sun.
The brightest star in the night sky, almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next. A faint white dwarf, Sirius B, circles it.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 8.60 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude −1.44
- Spectral type
- A0m
- Catalogue
- HIP 32349
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.