Star
Rigel
Rigel is a blue-white star 863 light-years away, seen as it was 863 years ago, shining 51 665 times as bright as the Sun.
The brightest star in Orion and usually the seventh-brightest in the sky: a blue supergiant around 120 000 times as luminous as the Sun.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 863 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 0.18
- Spectral type
- B8Ia
- Catalogue
- HIP 24436
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.