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Its story

68 Orionis is a double star made up of two hot B9-type components 832 light-years from the Solar System. Its surface grazes ten thousand kelvin and burns with the crystalline blue-white typical of late B stars. Though it is not among Orion's great beacons, it shares the winter sky with Betelgeuse and Rigel and belongs to the vast association of young stars that populate that region of the Milky Way.