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How luminous is alnitak?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Alnitak is a very interesting star, because it is not one, but three stars. The main star, Alnitak Aa, with a luminosity 100000 times that of the Sun is orbited at 11 Astronomical Units (roughly the distance at which Saturn orbits the Sun) by Alnitak Ab, with a luminosity of 20000 times that of the Sun. This binary star system is orbited at 680 AUs (roughly the distance of the inner Ort Cloud from the Sun) by Alnitak B, whose luminosity is roughly 10000 times that of the Sun.

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