Rigel
The blue supergiant foot of Orion.
Rigel is a blue supergiant in Orion and the brightest member of a system of at least four stars, about 850 light-years away. It is usually the seventh-brightest star in the night sky.
A B8Ia star, it is tens of thousands of times as luminous as the Sun and 18 to 24 times as massive. It is expected to end as a Type II supernova.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Blue supergiant
- Constellation
- Orion
- Distance
- ~850 light-years
- Spectral type
- B8Ia
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