Sirius is about 8.6 light years away which works out to about 50,600,000,000,000 (50.6 trillion) miles away.
No. There is no such thing as an "earth-like star" as Earth is a planet, not a star. Sirius A is a star that is larger and brighter than the sun.
That would be the Dog Star: Sirius.
The star Sirius is the brightest star visible from the earth. Sirius is in the Canis Major constelation, and is therefore often refered to as "the Dog Star"
Yes. Sirius actually consists of two stars. The main object, Sirius A is not only bigger than Earth but is almost twice the diameter of the sun. The secondary star, Sirius B is a collapsed remnant of a star called a white dwarf. It is slightly smaller than Earth but far denser.
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky of earth not a galaxy
Sirius 8.6 yearsBarnards Star 6 years
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No. Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's night sky, but how bright a star appears is a product of its actual brightness and its distance from us. Sirius itself is actually two stars with Sirius A emitting the vast majority of the system's light. Sirius A is a fairly large star, but others are much larger.
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Sirius is the brightest star...Polaris is bigger then Sirius, Polaris is 360 to 820 light years away from earth, and Sirius is only 8.6 light years away. The Sirius star is known as the dog constalation, The polaris star is found at the tip and corner of the big dipper and the little dipper
The brightest star as seen from Earth is the sun. The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius.
Sirius is visible because it is a large, bright star, and is closer to Earth than other (actually brighter) stars.