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Rigel is approx 860 ly away.
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Why does Rigel not look as bright as Sirius?
Because Rigel is much farther away. Rigel is 770 light-years away, and Sirius is only 8.6 light-years away.
How many light years is rigel?
Rigel is 860 +/- 80 ly away.
How many light years distant is Rigel?
860 +/- 80 ly.
How far is Orion?
Orion [See Link] is a constellation and thus has many stars of different distances from us.The nearest is GJ 3379 at around 17 light years.The brightest is Rigel at around 800 light years.
How long does it take Rigel and Betelgeuse to orbit each other?
Rigel and Betelgeuse don't orbit each other. They are hundreds of light-years away from each other.
How far is rigel from altair?
Rigel is about 860 light years from us.That equates to:5.05550984 × 1015 miles8.13605443 × 1015 kilometres54,386,117 AU.
Why does Rigel not look as bright as Sirius?
Because Rigel is much farther away. Rigel is 770 light-years away, and Sirius is only 8.6 light-years away.
How many light years is rigel?
Rigel is 860 +/- 80 ly away.
How many light years distant is Rigel?
860 +/- 80 ly.
Is rigel in the solar system?
No. Rigel is a star over 800 light years away from out solar system. The only star in the solar system is the sun.
The star Rigel in Orion's belt is 900 light years away what does that translate to in kilometers?
Rigel is in Orion, but not in its belt. It is the very bright star at the bottom right as we look at Orion. It is estimated to be anything between 700 and 900 light years away. 700 light years would be about 6,612,165,304,151,910 kilometres and 900 light years would be about 8,501,335,391,052,460 kilometres.
How far is Orion?
Orion [See Link] is a constellation and thus has many stars of different distances from us.The nearest is GJ 3379 at around 17 light years.The brightest is Rigel at around 800 light years.
How long does it take Rigel and Betelgeuse to orbit each other?
Rigel and Betelgeuse don't orbit each other. They are hundreds of light-years away from each other.
What would happen if the sun was replaced by Rigel?
It wouldnt be good because it might even destroy our 4 inner planets, we would have to be as far as Pluto. Even if we are as far as Pluto ,Rigel's color is blue and would affect our normal light
How far is Betelgeuse from Rigel in the constellation of Orion?
Betelgeuse is about 391.53 light years from Rigel. Here's a bit of mathematics about working out this distance: The distance ("a") from Earth to Betelgeuse is about 427 light years and the distance ("b") from Earth to Rigel is about 772 light years. The angle between the two stars from Earth is 18.56 degrees. Knowing these three numbers, we can now use the "law of cosines" to calculate the distance (c) between the stars: c = square root of (a2+ b2- 2ab x cosine of the angle). (In fact, we don't really know the distances to these stars as accurately as this answer may seem to suggest.)
Is rigel the closest to Polaris the North star?
No. Rigel is in Orion is is pretty far from Polaris.
How long would it take at 100mph to get to Rigel?
Rigel is about 860 light years from us. That equates to 5.05550984 × 1015 miles. So at 100mph, it would take 50,555,100,000,000 hours or 5.7673032 × 109 years (That's almost 6 billion years)
