Sirius vs Rigel
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Sirius
Seen in Canis Major, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's night sky by apparent brightness. That distinction concerns how bright it looks from Earth, rather than how much light it produces compared with every other star. The system contains Sirius A, a white A-type main-sequence star, and Sirius B, a much smaller white dwarf that is difficult to distinguish beside its brilliant companion.
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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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