Technically, neither. "Orion" is a name for a specific patch of sky which contains a few bright stars, a rather larger of dim-but-still-visible stars, and millions upon millions of stars that are so far away that they are invisibly dim.
Orion is a constellation - a group of stars, not a single star.
Orion is a constellation (group of stars) not a single star.
No, Betelgeuse is not a constellation. It is actually a red supergiant star located in the constellation of Orion. A constellation is a group or pattern of stars in the sky, while Betelgeuse is a single star within the Orion constellation.
A star is a single body, and a constellation is a group of stars.
There is no such thing as "the Orion star". Orion is a constellation - which is basically a general direction in the sky, and there are many, many stars in that constellation.
Rigel is the brightest star in Orion, Betelgeuse is the 2nd brightest
Orion has 7 main stars, 3 of which are "orion's belt." The other 4 represent his shoulders and feet.BetelgeuseSaiphRigelAlnitakAlnilamMinktakaBellatrix
The closest star to Betelgeuse is approximately 643 light-years away. This star is located in the star cluster known as the Orion Nebula, where it is part of a group of young, hot stars.
Orion isn't a star - it's a group of stars called a constellation. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it's easily found on a winter night, by looking halfway up the sky while you are facing south. Look for the 3 stars in a row that make up his belt.
In the constellation Orion upper right star from the hunters belt. - the long diagonall stretch of stars see in the constellation.
Betelgeuse is the star in Orion that is known as a red supergiant.
It is Betelgeuse, though Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation.