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The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to Earth. Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/H. Bond (STScl)/M. Barstow (University of Leicester)