Alnilam (Wikipedia)
Alnilam is the central star of Orion’s Belt in the equatorial constellation of Orion. It has the Bayer designation ε Orionis, which is Latinised to Epsilon Orionis and abbreviated Epsilon Ori or ε Ori. This is a massive, blue supergiant star some 2,000 light-years distant. It is estimated to be 832,000 times as luminous as the Sun, and 64.5 times as massive.![Orion_IAU.svg (Wikimedia Commons)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Orion_IAU.svg/387px-Orion_IAU.svg.png)