The star system next door was rather peculiar. It was a binary star system!
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By exerting gravitational forces upon one another, they orbited around a common center of mass.
The sun that controls the solar system is also a G star, a class of main-sequence stars.
As for this G star, it had a mass of 1.0 to 1.4 times that of the sun.
On the other hand, a white dwarf is a high-density star formed when a G star's core collapses at the end of its cycle.