BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Rigel

BLUE SUPERGIANT · Orion's bright foot
Rigel
AI illustration of the real object
DISTANCE about 860 light yearsLUMINOSITY about 120,000 Suns

The blazing blue white foot of Orion and usually the brightest star in the whole constellation. Rigel is a young heavyweight that burns its fuel recklessly, shining with the light of more than a hundred thousand Suns. Stars that live this large die young: in a few million years Rigel will explode as a supernova.

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