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Rigel
(Rigel)
Pronunciation:
/ˈrʌɪdʒəl, ˈrʌɪg(ə)l/
Astronomy
the seventh-brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the constellation Orion. It is a blue supergiant nearly sixty thousand times as luminous as our sun.
Origin:
from Arabic
rijl
'foot (of Orion)'
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