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need to know about ORION BELT STARS?
what special in orion belt stars?
i heard some ancient relationship between orion belt and egyptians,
some greek space studies with orion belt stars?
please let me know importance about those stars in Orion belt.
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- Chandramohan P.RLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
here are alternative ways to visualize Orion. From the Southern Hemisphere, Orion is oriented differently, and the belt and sword are sometimes called the Saucepan, or Pot in Australia/New Zealand. Orion's Belt is called Drie Konings (Three Kings) or the Drie Susters (Three Sisters) by Afrikaans speakers in South Africa,[2] and are referred to as les Trois Rois (the Three Kings) in Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin (1866). The appellation Driekoningen (the Three Kings) is also often found in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch star charts and seaman's guides. The same three stars are known in Spain and Latin America as "The Three Marys"Mintaka garnered the name Delta Orionis from Bayer, even though it is the faintest of the three stars in Orion's Belt. It is a multiple star system, composed of a large B-type blue giant and a more massive O-type white star. The Mintaka system constitutes an eclipsing binary variable star, where the eclipse of one star over the other creates a dip in brightness. Mintaka is the westernmost of the three stars that constitute Orion's Belt.[9]
Alnilam was named Epsilon Orionis, a consequence of Bayer's wish to name the three stars in Orion's Belt (from north to south) in alphabetical order. Alnilam is a B-type blue supergiant, despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun as Mintaka and Alnitak, the other two belt stars, its luminosity makes it nearly equal in magnitude. Alnilam is losing mass quickly, a consequence of its size;[10] approximately four million years old [10].
Alnitak was designated Zeta Orionis by Bayer, and is the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. It is a triple
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- roystonLv 44 years ago
the three remarkable stars that make up the nicely general asterism, Orion's belt, are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Astronomically talking, all 3 of those stars are great distances different than for one yet another in area.regrettably, i'm no longer so specific in numbers how far each celebrity is aside. i will inform you however the area of Alnitak from Sol (The sunlight) is approximately 795 gentle years away. i'm no longer too doubtful approximately the different 2 stars. And Sirius isn't linked with the Orion constellation. that's linked with the constellation Canis important. In latin which potential the great or great dogs. This constellation could be stumbled on some ranges to the far backside left below the Orion constellation.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Other than all that, they have nothing to do with the pyramids. It's a crackpot myth.
- Anonymous7 years ago
very confusing point. lookup onto google or bing. this will help!