Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Favorite Add to See similar items + More like this . For a distance of 4.5 to 6 million light years, you would not be able to see it with the naked eye. The stars are believed to have formed from the same nebula in Orion constellation, and they are roughly the same age. The three bright stars that form the Orion’s Belt are Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka.

Orions Belt spiral galaxy marble tiny handmade multitcolor 16.5mm glass marble - Men in Black mini galaxy micromarble steampunkglass 5 out of 5 stars (496) $ 25.95. It’s also known simply as the Orion Arm or Local Arm, and you sometimes still hear the names Orion Bridge or Orion Spur. Descending from the 'belt' is a smaller line of three stars, Orion's Sword (the middle of which is in fact not a star but the Orion Nebula), also known as the hunter's sword. English ones include: Jacob's Rod or Jacob's Staff; Peter's Staff; the Golden Yard-arm; The L, or Ell; The Ell and Yard; the Yard-stick, and the Yard-wand; the Ellwand; Our Lady's Wand; the Magi / the Three Kings; the Three Marys; or simply the Three Stars. Richard Hinckley Allen lists many folk names for the Belt of Orion. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Saiph—form a large roughly rectangular shape, in the centre of which lie the three stars of Orion's Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Orion's Belt (the three "big" stars) Orion's Belt is a series of three stars in the sky constellation, Orion. Once you find the Belt stars, you … The westernmost star in Orion’s belt is known officially as Delta Orionis. In Men in Black (film), Gentle Rosenburg, a dying Arquilian, tells Jay that the Arquilian Galaxy is on Orion's Belt. Th Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. Among Orion’s best-known features is the “belt,” consisting of three bright stars in a line, each of which can be seen without a telescope. One of the most recognizable constellations in the sky is Orion, the Hunter. The belt is made of the three stars, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Back at MiB, Jay, Kay, Zed, and the twins ponder how a series of three stars could contain a Galaxy with billions of stars. No - the furthest star in Orion - not it's belt, is only 32 thousand light years away. The three stars of Orion’s Belt jump out at you midway between Orion’s two brightest stars, Betelgeuse and Rigel.