As I write this seated at my laboratory table, by turning down my lamp and looking out, I can see the star dust of Orion's nebula, and without moving from my chair, rigel, Sirius, Capella and Betelgeuze-the blue, white, yellow and red evolution of so-called lifeless cosmic matter.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Betelgeuze is a star of the first magnitude, and so also is rigel, on the opposite side of the belt.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
This fact will doubtless eventually be of great importance to our understanding the successive development of a star from a nebula; and a star like rigel is no doubt also of very high temperature.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball