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Orion’s Belt is an asterism of three stars that appear about midway in the constellation Orion the Hunter. The asterism is so called because it appears to form a belt in the hunter’s outfit. It is one of the most famous asterisms used by amateur astronomers.
So without further ado, here is a sampling of some of the better-known stars in that are visible in the nighttime sky:
List of Stars
IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a “List of IAU-approved Star Names” since 2016. As of August 2018, the list included a total of 336 proper names of stars.
Now, let’s see which are the shiniest stars in our beautiful starry night sky.
Top 5 Most Interesting Stars
An O-type star is a hot, blue-white star of spectral type O in the Yerkes classification system employed by astronomers. They have temperatures in excess of 30,000 kelvin (K).
Tabby’s Star (also known as Boyajian’s Star and WTF Star, and designated KIC 8462852 in the Kepler Input Catalog) is an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus approximately 1,470 light-years (450 pc) from Earth.
star Fomalhaut
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Sirius A
This star typically turns out to be Sirius, which is in the constellation Canis Major the Greater Dog and is sometimes called the Dog Star. Sirius is now rising in the southeast in the hours after midnight and can be found in the south at dawn. Notice that a line from Orion’s Belt points to Sirius.
Sirius
Venus
No, the brightest star in the night sky is not the North Star. It’s Sirius, a bright, blue star that this weekend becomes briefly visible in the predawn sky for those of us in the northern hemisphere.
The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti, a hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the sun.
So at any hour of the night, at any time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, you can readily find Polaris and it is always found in a due northerly direction. If you were at the North Pole, the North Star would be directly overhead.
Polaris
The North Star, also known as Polaris, is known to stay fixed in our sky. It marks the location of the sky’s north pole, the point around which the whole sky turns. That’s because the North Star is really offset a little – by about three-quarters of a degree – from celestial north.
Polaris gained its reputation as the North Star due to its location in the night sky, which is aligned with the direction of Earth’s axis. Polaris is actually one of at least three stars in a single system. The star is about 4,000 times as bright as the sun.