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Heka
Meissa, Lambda Orionis, 39 Orionis
The head of Orion the Hunter is formed by a cluster of stars designated Collinder 69. In the sky, this cluster lies a little north of a line between Betelgeuse and Bellatrix. Heka (also called Meissa) is its brightest star - an intensely hot body of the O-type spectral classification. It shares the cluster with about twenty other stars.
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