Orion
About Orion
The Hunter. Visible worldwide with its distinctive three-star belt. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant that may go supernova at any time. Rigel is a blue supergiant roughly 120,000 times more luminous than the Sun. The Orion Nebula M42 is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword. Sirius, the brightest star, is part of Orions hunting dog Canis Major nearby. Associated with winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
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