Pi-2

Its story

Pi-2 Orionis belongs to Orion's Pi chain, the line of stars sketching the shield or the bow that the hunter raises against the charging Taurus. It is a blue-white main-sequence star spinning fast enough to smear its own spectral lines into broad, blurred bands—a clean spectroscopic fingerprint of rotation. Its light has been on its way for 224 years before reaching Earth tonight.