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Gemini is dominated by Castor and Pollux, two bright stars that appear relatively very closely together forming an o shape, encouraging the mythological link between the constellation and twinship. The twin above and to the right (as seen from the Northern Hemisphere) is Castor, whose brightest star is α Gem; it is a second-magnitude star and ...
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation ... This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Gemini, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F ...
Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini. It has the Bayer designation β Geminorum , which is Latinised to Beta Geminorum and abbreviated Beta Gem or β Gem . This is an orange-hued, evolved red giant located at a distance of 34 light-years , making it the closest red giant (and giant star ) to the Sun.
38 Geminorum is a binary star system in the northern zodiac constellation of Gemini. It has the Bayer designation e Geminorum , while 38 Geminorum is the Flamsteed designation . This system is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.71.
Rho Geminorum (ρ Gem) is a star system that lies 59 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, about 5 degrees west of Castor.The system consists of a primary bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, a faint secondary which has rarely been observed even professionally, and a distant, somewhat bright tertiary which requires telescopic equipment for observation.
The brightest nearby star, WDS J07041+2034 C, is the magnitude 7.6 HD 268518, 91.9" away when discovered in 1779 and 101.3" distant in 2008. [29] It is a foreground object, only a tenth the distance of Zeta Geminorum and a high proper motion star moving rapidly compared to the more distant stars. It is a G1 main sequence star very similar to ...
Xi Geminorum (ξ Geminorum, abbreviated Xi Gem, ξ Gem), formally named Alzirr / ˈ æ l z ər /, [10] is a star in the zodiac constellation of Gemini.It forms one of the four feet of the outline demarcating the Gemini twins. [11]
Theta Geminorum (θ Gem, θ Geminorum) is a single [11] star in the northern zodiac constellation of Gemini. It is visual to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.59. [ 2 ] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 17.25 mas , [ 1 ] it is about 189 light years distant from the Sun .