Bellatrix
mBellatrix is the 26th brightest star in the night sky.[1] It is the third brightest star in the constellation Orion.[2] It is 243 lightyears from the Solar system, and its mass is 8 times that of Sol, our sun. Its stellar type is B2, and it is only 20 million years old, and still on the main sequence.
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"Star, Name, Constellation, & Facts: Bellatrix". Encyclopedia Britannica. 2023-08-29. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
Bellatrix, the 26th brightest star in the sky and the third brightest star in the constellation of Orion. Bellatrix is also one of the 57 stars of celestial navigation.
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Fred Espenak. "Bellatrix - Gamma Orionis". AstroPixels. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
Its absolute magnitude is -2.72 and its distance is 243 light years.