Star
Bellatrix
Bellatrix is a blue-white star 252 light-years away, seen as it was 252 years ago, shining 1 152 times as bright as the Sun.
The closest major star in Orion, and one of the closest known candidates for a core-collapse supernova. Its name is Latin for 'female warrior'.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 252 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.64
- Spectral type
- B2III
- Catalogue
- HIP 25336
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.