No, it is not.
No, Rigel is not the closest star to Polaris (the North Star). Rigel is a bright star in the constellation Orion, while Polaris is located in the constellation Ursa Minor. The closest star to Polaris is Urodelus, also known as "Polaris Australis."
Rigel is in the same galaxy as Earth is, which is the Milky Way.
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
Sirius is a star, not a planet, and it is not the closest star to Earth or anywhere near being the closest (technically the closest star to Earth is the sun, and the next closest is Proxima Centauri).
The Sun is the closest star to Earth. The next closest star is 4.2 light years away. It is a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri.
Rigel is a blue supergiant star with a radius about 78 times larger than the Sun. If we assume that Earth's radius is 1/100th of the Sun's radius, then you could fit about 608,400 Earths inside Rigel.
The closest star to Earth is the SunThe second closest star to Earth is Proxima Centurai.
It shines as brightly because of the distance it has from earth and it has to do with how old the star is.
My planet is Earth. Earth's closest star is the Sun.
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
Rigel is a triple star system.
The Rigel star is a star in the Orion constellation. Rigel is the brightest star in the Orion constellation, and it is the seventh brightest star seen in the night's sky.