Rigel
blue supergiant in Orion
860 light-years from Earth
A blue-white supergiant about 120,000 times as luminous as the Sun. It is burning through its fuel so fast it will explode within a few million years.
- 860 light-years · 79 times the Sun's radius
- kind
- star
- size
- 0.73 AU across
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