Orion's Belt is known as an asterism, a pattern of stars that is not one of the 88 official constellations. As its name suggests, Orion's Belt typically represents the waist of Orion in depictions ...

On these chilly March evenings, there’s nothing quite as nice as a good belt, something to keep you all warm and toasty. I’m talking hot chocolate, tea or whatever.

That will certainly change the look of Orion’s Belt — a pattern of stars that has always been noticed. (It’s mentioned in the Bible. And in movies like Men in Black.) ...

Probably most striking, however, is the three stars marking Orion’s “belt.” They are sometimes called the Three Kings of Three Sisters.

As the two stars pass in front of each other, their combined brightness we see varies slightly over time. Well, that’s it, the three stars that form Orion’s belt, one of the true jewels of the ...

Standing upright and shining down upon Earth on these midwinter nights is the brightest and grandest of all the constellations: Orion, the Mighty Hunter. Currently, Orion can be easily seen by ...

The constellation Orion is an arrangement of stars that ancient Greeks thought looked like a giant figure with a sword belt, so they named it after their legendary mythological hunter, according ...

It’s located in the sword of the great hunter Orion just below his belt and is a favorite object for amateur astronomers. M42 shines at a magnitude of 5.0 so it's pretty bright.

The stars in Orion’s Belt are in the same stage, hence they shine brightly and are aligned in the sky. Now, this belt exists slightly below the celestial equator.

The three prominent stars we now call Orion’s Belt were three fishermen out to catch their daily meal. Around 3000 years ago in Babylon, act two opens.