GEMINI CONSTELLATION
The Gemini is pretty easy to spot it is located northeast of Orion and between Taurus and Cancer on the elliptic. Gemini is Latin for twins. Gemini is one of the Zodiac constellations.
This constellation is named after the twin Castor and the Pollux in Greek mythology. These are the two brightest stars in the constellation. They represent the heads of the twins, while fainter stars outline the bodies is of it. Pollux and orange giant star is the brighter of the twins. Castor is a Mekbuda, which is a super giant star that has a radius that is about 220,000 times the size of the sun.
Some other stars in this constellation are the Eskimo Nebula, Medusa Nebula and Geminga, (a neutron star)
The messier object (M35), part of a set of astronomical object first found in 1771 by a french astronomers
(Charles Messier). The M35 is near the "feet" of the twins. Astronomers think that the cluster is more than 100
million years old.
(Mythology)
Even though the Castor and the Pollux share the same mother, Leda, the Queen of Sparta, they have different dads.
Tyndarus (Ledas' husband) is the father of castor. He was also the king of Sparta. God Zeus (Pollux's father)
made Pollux immortal while his twin brother Castor was mortal.
This constellation is named after the twin Castor and the Pollux in Greek mythology. These are the two brightest stars in the constellation. They represent the heads of the twins, while fainter stars outline the bodies is of it. Pollux and orange giant star is the brighter of the twins. Castor is a Mekbuda, which is a super giant star that has a radius that is about 220,000 times the size of the sun.
Some other stars in this constellation are the Eskimo Nebula, Medusa Nebula and Geminga, (a neutron star)
The messier object (M35), part of a set of astronomical object first found in 1771 by a french astronomers
(Charles Messier). The M35 is near the "feet" of the twins. Astronomers think that the cluster is more than 100
million years old.
(Mythology)
Even though the Castor and the Pollux share the same mother, Leda, the Queen of Sparta, they have different dads.
Tyndarus (Ledas' husband) is the father of castor. He was also the king of Sparta. God Zeus (Pollux's father)
made Pollux immortal while his twin brother Castor was mortal.