Betelgeuse
A red supergiant on Orion’s shoulder, so large that in place of the Sun it would reach past the orbit of Mars.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.45, the 10th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 498 light years
- Kind of star
- Red supergiant, spectral type M2 Ib
- Light it gives out
- About 13,000 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Orion, where it is α Orionis
- Catalogue number
- HIP 27989
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources