Sirius A,B-Type= A1 + DA, Magnitudes=-1.4+8.4, Distance=8.60 ly. This brilliant white star is the brightest star in the night sky and the most luminous star within 25 light years. Its white dwarf companion was first seen in 1852, the first white dwarf ever seen.
DirecTV and Dish Network customers will be getting a free preview of MLB Extra Innings starting on Friday, July 15 and ending on Thursday, July 21, 2016. The MLB Extra Innings is an add-on to your television service package that includes up to 80 games per week on your TV, with duel-feed broadcasts to pick which announcers you want to hear and the mosaic channel to watch multiple games at once.
This event may be the last baseball event contested in the Olympics history, as the International Olympic Committee voted to remove baseball from the program in the 2012 Olympics. Along with softball, baseball was rejected for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Olympics at the IOC's meeting in October 2009. This was also the first time that the IBAF's new extra-innings rule was officially in effect, allowing each team to start with two base runners from the 11th inning on.