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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.
Jupiter is often able to capture comets that orbit the Sun; such comets enter unstable orbits around the planet that are highly elliptical and perturbable by solar gravity. While some of them eventually recover a heliocentric orbit, others crash into the planet or more rarely become one of its satellites. [2] [3]
Gemini lies between Taurus to the west and Cancer to the east, with Auriga and Lynx to the north, Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south, and Orion to the south-west. In classical antiquity, Cancer was the location of the Sun on the northern solstice (June 21). During the first century AD, axial precession shifted it into Gemini.
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“Thursday evening into Friday morning, 2 to 3 March, 2023, the bright star Pollux (the brighter of the twins in the constellation Gemini) will appear near the waxing gibbous Moon,” the US ...
The ship was damaged by a meteor storm shortly after liftoff. The resulting damage sent the Gemini 12 out of control, and it was presumed lost in space. The disabled ship crashed on a habitable planet. After the crash, controlled regeneration awoke the crew from three years in suspended animation.
Jupiter was last in Gemini from June 2000 to July 2001 and June 2012 to June 2013. In astrology, Jupiter is the planet associated with good luck, and is thought to magnify the effects of the sign ...
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.