Rigel
At a glance
- Type
- Star
- Distance
- Nearby (under 1,000 light years)
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- Before telescopes (before 1600)
- Colour
- White, Blue
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- The name Rigel comes from the Arabic word for foot, because it marks a foot of Orion the hunter.
- Rigel gives off tens of thousands of times more light than our Sun.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q12126 · All space objects · All entries