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Just the one: good old Sol. Actually, lots of systems do have double, even triple stars. Our nearest stellar neighbor, Rigil Kentaurus, has two approximately Sun-sized stars (one a little bigger, the other a little smaller) plus a red dwarf that orbits them. Currently, this dwarf is at a part of its orbit which is closer to Earth than the other two, so we call it Proxima.

Some people claim that Sol also has a dwarf companion, orbiting at such a distance that it only comes by, rather like a comet, every 26 million years, and that this accounts of mass extinctions. This star, which some call Shiva and some Nemesis, has never been detected. Moreover, it's about 13 million years since the last big extinction, so even if it exists, it's way the heck out there and won't be seen anytime soon.

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