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Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. It consists of the three bright stars Zeta (Alnitak), Epsilon (Alnilam), and Delta (Mintaka). Alnitak is around 800 light years away from earth and is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun and shines with magnitude 1.8; much of its radiation is in the ultraviolet ...
Meissa / ˈ m aɪ s ə /, designated Lambda Orionis (λ Orionis, abbreviated Lambda Ori, λ Ori) is a star in the constellation of Orion. It is a multiple star approximately 1,300 ly away with a combined apparent magnitude of 3.33. [12] The main components are an O8 giant star and a B-class main sequence star, separated by about 4″.
Bellatrix was also called the Amazon Star, which Richard Hinckley Allen proposed came from a loose translation of the Arabic name Al Najīd, the Conqueror. [14] A c.1275 Arabic celestial globe records the name as المرزم "the lion". [32] Bellatrix is one of the four navigational stars in Orion that are used for celestial navigation. [33]
Orion, an 1843 poem by Richard Henry Horne; Orion, a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio; Orion and King Arthur, a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova; The Orion, an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Dead at Daybreak, a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as Orion
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Betelgeuse and Bellatrix are south-east and south-west of the formation, forever cast as Alpha and Gamma by Bayer, they are near the top of Orion and in myth represent the hunter's shoulders. Sharpless 264 , also known as the Lambda Orionis Ring , is a molecular cloud and H II region , which can be seen in the northern region of the Orion ...
Saiph / ˈ s eɪ f /, designation Kappa Orionis (κ Orionis, abbreviated Kappa Ori, κ Ori) and 53 Orionis (53 Ori), is a blue supergiant star and the sixth-brightest star in the constellation of Orion. Of the four bright stars that compose Orion's main quadrangle, it is the star at the south-eastern corner.