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Alpheratz
Alpheratz, officially designated as Alpha Andromedae, is a bright binary star system marking the northeast corner of the Great Square of Pegasus asterism. Historically, the star was also designated as Delta Pegasi due to its shared location on the conceptual border between the Pegasus and Andromeda constellations. The primary star is a hot B-type subgiant that rotates rapidly, generating a surroun...
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Rigel
Rigel marks one of Orion's feet as a bright blue supergiant, with the hot primary star belonging to spectral class B. Its great intrinsic luminosity helps make it one of the prominent stars in Earth's night sky despite a distance commonly estimated at roughly 860 light-years. Distance estimates carry uncertainty, so that figure is best treated as approximate rather than as an exact measurement.
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