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.
Rigel, also known by its Bayer designation Beta Orionis (Î² Ori, Î² Orionis), is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the seventh brightest star in the night sky, with visual magnitude 0.13.igel is the third most inherently luminous first magnitude star after Deneb and Betelgeuse. Rigel has a color index (BâV) of â0.03, meaning it appears white or lightly blue-white.