Sirius

The night sky's brightest star, a nearby A-type binary in Canis Major. Its white spark is hard to miss on winter evenings, and a faint white-dwarf companion orbits beside it.

Wikipedia

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID
HIP 32349
Distance
2.64 pc · 8.6 ly
Parallax
379.21 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G)
-1.09
Color (BP-RP)
-
Radius
unknown
RA · Dec
101.29° · -16.71°