Dog star Memes

The cosmic pun game is strong with this one! While Sirius (the brightest star in our night sky) is moving relative to our solar system, we're not exactly facing an interstellar collision course. At 8.6 light-years away, even at 9 miles per second, we'd need about 50 million years before any "Sirius trouble" happens! Fun stellar fact: Sirius is actually a binary star system with Sirius A (the bright one we see) and its companion white dwarf Sirius B. Ancient Egyptians used Sirius's appearance to predict the annual flooding of the Nile. Talk about a star with some serious responsibilities!