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What is temperature of rigel and sun?
Rigel: 12100 K.Sun: 5778 K.
Is Rigel cooler than the sun?
No. Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the Sun's 5778 K.
Is the sun larger than Rigel?
No. Rigel is more than 70 times larger.
Is Rigel temperature higher than the sun?
Yes. Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the Sun's 5778 K.
Why does the sun seem brighter than Rigel?
The sun appears brighter than Rigel does because it is much closer to us by a factor of about 50 million.
Which is the hottest is it the sun or the betelgeuseor the rigel or the arcturus?
Rigel
What is temperature of rigel and sun?
Rigel: 12100 K.Sun: 5778 K.
Is Rigel cooler than the sun?
No. Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the Sun's 5778 K.
Is the sun larger than Rigel?
No. Rigel is more than 70 times larger.
Is Rigel temperature higher than the sun?
Yes. Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the Sun's 5778 K.
Is rigel cooler than your sun?
No, it is not cooler than my sun.
Is the star rigel bigger then the sun?
yes it is
Why does the sun seem brighter than Rigel?
The sun appears brighter than Rigel does because it is much closer to us by a factor of about 50 million.
How much hotter is Rigel than the sun?
Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the Sun's 5778 K. Since these temperatures are on the absolute scale, it is possible to say that Rigel is approx 2.1 times as hot.
Is rigel a dwarf star?
No Rigel is a huge, blue supergiant of spectral class B8 Ia, Rigel has an intrinsic brightness about 40,000 times as luminous as that of the sun.
How does our Sun differ in size and temperature from the star Rigel?
Rigel has a radius which is 79 times as large as the sun - so that its volume is half a million times as great. The Rigel's effective temperature is 12100 K compared to the sun's 5778 K : about 2.1 times as hot.
What is the mass of Rigel?
Rigel has a mass about 17 times that of our Sun. This equates to a mass of 6.726081977 x 1031 kg
