how many stars are in orion constellation?

Answer 1

7 main stars.
2 at the top, 2 at the bottom and 3 in the belt.
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There are 22 stars that make up the whole figure. But these only appear as stars. A couple of them are actually galaxies many times further away.

Answer 2

Evan with the most powerfull telescopes not all the stars in the Orion constelation would be detectable because of all the dark matter between the other stars and the Orion Nebula itself proberly sheilds about half of all the stars in the constelation anyway.

At presend there are 1,500 known stars in the Orion Constelation but in total there could be 10 times this amount that we cant see.

I hope that this ansers your question.

Answer 3

That's not really an easy-to-answer question. There 7 bright recognizable stars. Betelguese and Bellatrix are his shoulders, Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are his belt, and Saiph and Rigel are his feet or knees depending on the illustration being used. However there are many other stars that are part of the asterism that makes up the Orion figure, and hundreds more stars that are in the Orion constellation region.

Answer 4

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Like a lot of questions in astronomy, yours has many answers! It depends on how you are looking at the stars.
Modern astronomers have well defined boundaries for each constellation. I just did a quick search on a database, and found that there are about 250 stars visible to the naked eye inside the borders of what we call "Orion". However, from where I am, I can rarely see more than about 20! That's because there are lots of lights where I am, and the sky gets washed out.

But that's only with your naked eye. Time exposures using cameras also can show much fainter stars. If you look at any basic astronomy textbook I'm sure you'll find some long exposures of Orion. Even with a small camera you can see thousands of stars in a one hour exposure!

Stars can even be so faint you need a telescope to see them, and the bigger the telescope, the fainter you can go. Using the biggest telescopes in the world, I am sure you can see many millions of stars inside Orion's borders.

Not only that, but there are many stars that are blocked by gas and dust in our Galaxy, If we could sweep that away, you would see billions of stars! And finally, there are lots of other galaxies, extremely faint, in Orion, each containing many billions of stars. There are perhaps trillion or quadrillions of stars in Orion! It just depends on how faint you want to go.

Answer 5

Ther are many hundreds of bright stars in the constellation only a few of which have been named as follows:
Rigel Algebar, Elgebar; Betelgeuse α Mankib, Al Mankib; Bellatrix
Alnilam, Alnihan, Alnitam Alnitak, Alnitah Saiph Mintaka, Mentaka, Mintika Hatsya, Na'ir al Saif Tabit, Hassaleh; Saif al Jabbar,
λMeissa, Heka Khad Posterior Khad Prior Thabit, Tabit

Answer 6

7 Stars

Answer 7

There is only one star in the entire Universe, just as there is only one electron.

Answer 8

The link below will explain it far better than I can:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-08/864652578.As.r.html

Answer 9

totally eight but two of them r looking joint.so u can c seven in ur nacked eyes

Answer 10

eight stars one is really behind orion.

Answer 11

Nacked eyes?
Do you mean knackered or naked?