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What is special about the star Rigel?

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Rigel, also called Beta Orionis, is one of the brightest stars in the sky, intrinsically as well as in appearance. A blue-white supergiant in the constellation Orion, Rigel is about 870 light-years from the Sun and is about 47,000 times as luminous. A companion double star, also bluish-white, is of the sixth magnitude.

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