Rigel
A blue-white supergiant at the foot of Orion, one of the most luminous stars you can see with the eye.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.18, the 7th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 863 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white supergiant, spectral type B8 Ia
- Light it gives out
- About 52,000 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Orion, where it is β Orionis
- Catalogue number
- HIP 24436
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources