A disappearing plane and a disease's sudden spread. Legalizations, celebrations â and the inexplicable attraction of a dumped bucket of ice water. These are some of the stories that dominated 2014. Now we want your choices.
The brightest star, as viewed from Earth, is Sirius, and it appears bluish-white to the human eye. It is classified as an A1Vm star and shares the color spectrum with other class-A stars.
Blue-white Rigel, in the constellation Orion, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Itâs about twice as hot, and 40,000 times brighter, than our sun. The beautiful blue-white star Rigel is in the constellation Orion the Hunter.