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Answer for the clue "Part of Orion's left leg ", 5 letters:
rigel

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Rigel , also designated Beta Orionis ( β Orionis , abbreviated Beta Ori , β Ori ), is the brightest star in the constellation of Orion and the seventh brightest star in the night sky, with visual magnitude 0.13. The star as seen from Earth is actually a ...

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Rigel \Ri"gel\, n. [Ar. rijl, properly, foot.] (Astron.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. [Written also Regel .]

Usage examples of rigel.

So long as they kept within twenty meters of the hull they would be inside the effective field of the Rabinowitz Drive, which swept ship and contents and associated fellow travelers toward Rigel, or the Lesser Magnellanic, or was it one of the Pleiades toward which they were bound at a cool nine lights ?

Sun grew smaller, until it was dwarfed by Betel-geuse and Rigel, until it was a faint white star, lost amid the receding splendors of Orion.

Upon exiting back into normal space, one squadron found itself at Sirius, another at Aldebaran, and another near Canopus, while the rest reappeared strewn in ones and twos across Arcturus, Procyon, Castor, Polaris, Rigel, and assorted other stars in between.

Rigel had stated was absolutely true the autopsies showed no sign of any organic disease in either Agnatha or Neko, nor any toxins or other foreign substances.

A fishing trawler led the way, like a pilotfish swimming before the gray bulk of a shark, and behind came the graceful pyramid of wood and canvas, the three-masted clipper Rigel.

So, when I popped in on the Rigel colony to observe their Fat Tuesday revelries, I did so incognito.

The supergiant star Rigel sits almost at the farthest boundary of Fourth Alliance territory.

Rigel Kentaurus, a splendid visual binary with a third and faint companion, Proxima Centauri.