cohort. n. 1. (Military) one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion. 2. any band of warriors or associates: the cohorts of Satan. 3.
As an early M-type supergiant, Betelgeuse is one of the largest, most luminous and yet one of the most ethereal stars known. A radius of 5.5 AU is roughly 7003118000000000000â 1180 times the radius of the Sunâable to contain over 2 quadrillion Earths (2.15 Ã 1015) or more than 1.6 billion (1.65 Ã 109) Suns.
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse is the brightest star in Orion and marks the western shoulder of the constellation. Betelgeuse is one of the largest known stars and is probably at least the size of the orbits of Mars or Jupiter around the sun. That's a diameter about 700 times the size of the Sun or 600 million miles.