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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 ...
Bellatrix is a bright star in the constellation of Orion (top right). ... This page was last edited on 9 December 2024, at 01:19 (UTC).
Constellation: Orion ... GRB 991216, nicknamed the Beethoven Burst by Dr. Brad Schaefer of Yale University, was a gamma-ray burst observed on December 16, ...
An asteroid will briefly eclipse Betelgeuse, a bright star in the Orion constellation, causing it to disappear from view for those in a narrow strip of the globe. ... December 11, 2023 at 2:25 PM ...
Culminating every year at midnight on 12 December, and at 9:00 pm on 24 January, Rigel is visible on winter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere and on summer evenings in the Southern Hemisphere. [26] In the Southern Hemisphere, Rigel is the first bright star of Orion visible as the constellation rises. [34]
Orion's Belt is an asterism in the constellation of Orion.Other names include the Belt of Orion, the Three Kings, and the Three Sisters. [1] The belt consists of three bright and easily identifiable collinear star systems – Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka – nearly equally spaced in a line, spanning an angular size of ~ 140′ (2.3°).
NGC 1819 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Orion. [4] It was discovered on December 26, 1885, by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift. [7] This galaxy is located at a distance of 197.4 million light-years (60.53 Mpc) from the Milky Way, [3] and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 4,483 km/s.
Orion variable; well-studied protostar 2MASS J05352184-0546085: V2384: 05 h 35 m 21.84 s: −05° 46′ 08.6″ M7: eclipsing binary brown dwarf OMC-2 FIR 4: V2457: 05 h 35 m 26.97 s: −05° 09′ 54.5″ M7: has a circumstellar disk; Orion variable Orion Source I: 05 h 35 m 14.51 s: −05° 22′ 30.4″ protostellar binary Reipurth 50: 05 h ...