Seeing Stars: Visiting Rigel, or Orion’s knee

By Susan Cushing | Kickapoo Dark-Sky Initiative Last week we began exploring the constellation Orion by visiting red giant star Betelgeuse. The next star we’ll visit is Rigel, one of Orion’s knees, or to some observers one of his feet. It joins Betelgeuse as one of the 10 brightest stars we can see and is part…