Rigel
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rigel-167-14378076
title:
Rigel
text:
Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It has the Bayer designation β Orionis, which is Latinized to Beta Orionis and abbreviated Beta Ori or β Ori. Rigel is the brightest and most massive component – and the eponym – of a star system of at least four stars that appear as a single blue-white point of light to the naked eye. This system is located at a distance of approximately 860 light-years (260 pc) from the Sun. A star of spectral type B8Ia, Rigel is calculated to be a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Brightest star in the constellation Orion
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigel
date created:
2002-02-25T15:43:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T13:00:48Z
main entity:
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image:
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13
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16