Pollux
The brighter of the Gemini twins, an orange giant with a planet of its own.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.16, the 18th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 34 light years
- Kind of star
- Orange giant, spectral type K0 III
- Light it gives out
- About 32 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Gemini, where it is β Geminorum
- Catalogue number
- HIP 37826
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- CastorA white main-sequence star in Gemini, about three fingers away.
- Beehive ClusterAn open cluster in Cancer, about a hand span away.
- M 35An open cluster in Gemini, about a hand span away.
- ProcyonA yellow-white subgiant in Canis Minor, about a hand span away.
- M 37An open cluster in Auriga, about a hand span away.