The three stars of Orion’s Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka — may look like small dots in the night sky, but they are actually enormous, extremely bright stars that are much bigger and hotter than our Sun. While the Sun is a medium-sized star close to Earth, these Belt stars are blue supergiants located hundreds to thousands of light-years away and can be tens of times larger and hundreds of thousands of times brighter than the Sun. They only seem tiny because they are so incredibly far from

You might know Orion’s Belt, but can you spot the full constellation – Orion the Hunter? Look for a line of three stars in the southeastern sky (the “belt”).. From there, surrounding stars make up Orion’s shoulder, sword, head, and shield. | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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