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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 ...
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It is located in the northern hemisphere, about 73 light-years from the Earth, in the constellation of Gemini. [12] It is visually close to Pollux, the brightest star in the constellation. [7] HD 63433 is predicted to approach within 7.33 light-years of the Sun in 1.33 million years. [21] That will make it one of the nearest stars to the Sun.
Messier 35 or M35, also known as NGC 2168 or the Shoe-Buckle Cluster, is a relatively close open cluster of stars in the west of Gemini, at about the declination of the Sun when the latter is at June solstice. [a] It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux around 1745 and independently discovered by John Bevis before 1750. [3]
Gamma Geminorum (γ Geminorum, abbreviated Gamma Gem, γ Gem), formally named Alhena / æ l ˈ h iː n ə /, [13] is the third-brightest object in the constellation of Gemini.It has an apparent visual magnitude of 1.9, [2] making it easily visible to the naked eye even in urban regions.
Tau Geminorum, Latinized from τ Geminorum, is a star in the northern zodiac constellation of Gemini.It has the apparent visual magnitude of +4.42, [2] making it visible to the naked eye under suitably good seeing conditions.
NGC 2266 is an open cluster [5] of stars in the constellation of Gemini. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 7 December 1785. [6] This is a relatively dim cluster with an integrated visual magnitude of 9.5 and an angular size of 5.0′. The stellar members can be readily resolved with an amateur telescope. [3]