How many stars make up the constellation of Orions Belt?

Answer 1

Yes - sort of - it's a group of stars that look like a man. We call these patterns of stars, "constellations" Orion the Hunter is easy to spot - look for the three stars of his belt during the winter months. Orion is fighting Taurus the Bull, which is to the right of Orion.

Answer 2

The constellation of Orion's Belt is composed of three bright stars: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. These three stars are well-known for forming a line that appears like a belt around the waist of the constellation Orion.

Answer 3

The two stars are about 2 degrees apart so if they were both at the same average distance of 300 parsecs they would be about 10 parsecs apart.

But the top one is 210 pc away and the other one 390 pc so they are more like 180 pc apart. The lower one is nearly twice as far from us.

Answer 4

There are some 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Orion Arm is one of several arms or parts of arms spiraling out from the center of our galaxy. I had always assumed a good fraction of the Milky Way stars would exist in the central bulge, but cannot find hard estimates of that. Let us assume about a quarter of the stellar population resides there. That leaves 150 to 300 billion stars for the arms. If there are six arms, the Orion Arm may contain somewhere between 25 to 50 billion stars. Only three arms, circling around the galaxy, suggests perhaps twice that many stars.

Answer 5

Wrong question.

I mean, it's a reasonable question to wonder about... it's just not a reasonable question to expect an answer to.

Constellations are patches of sky. Within the borders of the patch we label "Orion" there are trillions upon trillions of stars... even whole galaxies. So we can't possibly give an answer to the question.

Maybe you're asking how many main stars there are in the asterism Orion the Hunter, in which case the answer is much simpler: 7. 2 are his shoulders, 2 are his knees (or possibly his feet), and there are three in his belt (there are a couple of others that could represent parts of a human figure as well... iota Orionis, the brightest star in his sword, and lambda Orionis, about where his nose should be, but they're noticeably dimmer than the others mentioned).

Answer 6

Despite looking as if they're near each other, they're actually not all that close. The two on the ends are roughly 100 light-years apart since one of them is about 800 light-years from Earth and the other one is about 900 light-years from Earth. The middle one is even further at about 1300 light-years.

Answer 7

The Orion Arm is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy some 3,500 light years across and approximately 10,000 light years in length.

Also referred to as the Local Arm, the Local Spuror the Orion Spur.

It would be impossible to say how many stars are located within it, as there is no real defining boundary. A guesstimate would be in the order of a few billion.

See link for a pictorial representation of the Milky Way Galaxy and the Orion Arm.

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Orion is also a constellation. It contains 2 shoulder stars, 3 belt stars, 2 weapon stars, 9 shield stars and 4 swords stars and is comprised of about 20 stars.

Answer 8

Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an astronomical asterism in the constellation Orion and do not have a constellation itself. However, Orion's Belt consists of the three bright stars Ori (Alnitak), Ori (Alnilam), and Ori (Mintaka).

The same three stars are known in Latin America as "The Three Marys". They also mark the northern night sky when the sun is at it's lowest point.

Answer 9

There are 3 stars in Orion's belt. Starting from left to right, they are Alniltak, Alnilam and Mintaka.

Answer 10

There are 23 stars that make up Orion and 3 that make up the belt.