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	What's Up - Constellations (Apr)
		Pollux is a solitary star, located some 35 light years from us, and is a typical aging orange giant star which has swollen in it's final years to span eleven times the diameter of our sun.
		Interestingly, Pollux is located at almost the same distance from us as the familiar Arcturus now visible in the east; Pollux appears fainter to us as Arcturus is of twice the actual light output, a rare chance to compare stars of a similar type at an equal distance.
		An eighth magnitude star in the telescopic field with Zeta is merely aligned by accident; the stars are in fact nowhere near one another in distance.
	www.sciencecenter.net /whatsup/04/gm-stars.htm (1530 words)

	Pollux (star) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pollux (β Gem / β Geminorum / Beta Geminorum) is one of the brightest stars in the constellation Gemini and one of the brightest in the nighttime sky.
		Castor is a hot white quadruple star, while Pollux is a cooler yellow-orange giant.
		Castor and Pollux together correspond to the Nakshatra Punarvasu in Hindu astronomy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pollux_(star) (177 words)

	Pollux
		In any case, Pollux is the 17th brightest star in Earth's night sky and one of the stars of the Winter Circle.
		Pollux is a New Suspected Variable star designated as NSV 3712, and it may have as many as six optical, stellar companions that are not gravitationally bound to the star.
		As a star that has evolved out of the "main sequence," Pollux has fully shifted from the fusion of hydrogen to helium at its core to the fusion of helium to carbon and oxygen, with trace activity of other nuclear processes.
	www.solstation.com /stars2/pollux.htm (1108 words)

	Pollux (Beta Geminorum)
		The brightest star in the constellation Gemini, despite its Beta designation, and the 17th brightest in the sky.
		Pollux is a giant orange K star that makes an interesting color contrast with its white "twin," Castor.
		Evidence has been found for a a hot, outer, magnetically supported corona around Pollux, and the star is known to be an X-ray emitter.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/Pollux.html (230 words)

	Gemini: The Twins?
		Pollux was the result of the famous Leda and the Swan affair, when Zeus (the Roman Jupiter) disguised as a swan seduced Leda.
		Pollux and Helen, the famous Helen of Troy were fathered by Zeus; while Castor and Clytemnestra who became the wife of Agamemnon the commander of the Greek forces of the Trojan war, were the mortal offspring of Tyndareus.
		Pollux was inconsolable by the death of Castor and petitioned his father to let him die too.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/bmoler/gemini.htm (801 words)

	Alachua Astronomy Club: FirstLight Tenth Year -- Jarman 1989 February
		Aldebaran is one of the few stars of 1st magnitude that may be occulted by the Moon, and such events occur in "seasons" in which the star may be occulted repeatedly, month after month.
		There is a third visible star, although very faint, and each of the three stars is itself a binary, thus forming one of the most remarkable examples of a multiple star system.
		Pollux, although designated "Beta," is actually brighter than "Alpha" or Castor and it has been suggested that one of these stars has changed in luminosity in the last few centuries.
	www.floridastars.org /8902jarm.html (960 words)

	Pollux - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An orange giant of spectral class K0 III, it is the nearest giant star, lying at a distance of 35 light-years.
		Pollux is the brighter of the Twins, Castor appearing about half as bright.
		Statue of Castor and Pollux, twin sons of zeus and symbols of provident divine intervention, on the Campidogio.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pollux2.html (246 words)

	Gemini
		The stars of Gemini include two of the most recognisable in the heavens: the twins Castor and Pollux.
		Pollux is the brighter of the two stars with a visual magnitude of 1.16 and a distance of 33.7 light years.
		This star may be as far away as 950 light years, but the combination of visual and absolute magnitudes suggests a much closer star, at only 190 light years.
	www.dibonsmith.com /gem_con.htm (925 words)

	Castor and Pollux - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Castor and Pollux, in Greek and Roman mythology, the twin sons of Leda, wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus.
		Pollux, also Beta Geminorum, southernmost of the two stars called the heavenly twins in the zodiacal constellation Gemini.
		Castor, a star, also called Alpha Geminorum, of magnitude 1.6, one of the two bright stars of the zodiacal constellation Gemini, or the Twins.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Castor_and_Pollux.html (127 words)

	Pollux IV - Memory Alpha
		Pollux IV is the fourth planet in the Pollux system, which is likely in Federation space, 33.7 light years from Sol.
		A view of the surface of Pollux IV was depicted on several viewscreens on Deep Space 9's promenade and replimat (DS9: "The Muse") advertising a visit to the "amazing ruins of Pollux IV".
		Pollux IV was mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG: "Conspiracy." It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=Pollux_IV&printable=yes (264 words)

	Castor 6
		Although is Pollux actually the brightest star of Constellation Gemini (color photo), the Twins, Johannes Bayer (1572-1625) gave the first-rank Greek letter designation of Alpha to Castor (7:34:35.9+31:53:17.8, ICRS 2000.0) around 1600.
		While Pollux is a highly evolved and relatively cool orange-red giant, single star, Castor is actually composed of three sets of tight, spectroscopic binary stars with a combined luminosity of 52.4 times that of Sol's.
		Stars Aab are separated from its nearest binary companions Bab by around 107 AUs (6.805" of a semi-major axis at a HIPPARCOS distance estimate of 51.6 ly) in an orbit that takes 467 years to complete.
	www.solstation.com /stars2/castor6.htm (2229 words)

	ASTR 1025 SPRING 2001: QUIZ #2
		Castor is an A1 star and Pollux is a K0 star.
		Star A is a G2 star with a radius twice that of the Sun.
		a) The peak of the spectrum of Star A is at shorter wavelengths than the peak of the spectrum of Star B. b) Star A is a red star, star B is a blue star.
	www.etsu.edu /physics/bsmith/spring01/hw+q+s/quiz2a+answers.html (964 words)

	Binary and Multiple Star Systems
		The three belt stars of Orion, Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak, were imaged (with the ISIS ccd camera, B filter, 0.55 seconds) through a small finder scope (80 mm Celestron refractor attached to the side of the Yerkes 24 inch telescope).
		Albireo is the star at the tail of Cygnus the Swan (or the foot of the Northern Cross).
		The brighter star is south of the dimmer star.
	sunra.lbl.gov /~vhoette/Explorations/BinaryStars (858 words)

	Skyscript: Star Lore of the Constellations - Gemini the Twins
		Skyscript: Star Lore of the Constellations - Gemini the Twins
		Generally, Pollux was renown for strength and ferocity, while Castor excelled in the muses, wisdom, prophecy, logic and artful negotiation.
		Of the remaining stars in Gemini, Ptolemy claimed that those in the feet are of the nature of Mercury with a moderate influence of Venus, and those in the thighs like Saturn.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /gemini_myth.html (1443 words)

	systemic - Pollux
		Pollux is about 1.9 times more massive than the Sun, and is already coming to the end of its life.
		Higher mass stars also tend to be fast rotaters, which further smears out the lines, and they are often subject to pulsations which can mimic the radial velocity signature of an orbiting planet.
		The atmosphere of the star then regains the wealth of spectral lines that can be used to make accurate radial velocity measurments, and hence detect planetary companions.
	oklo.org /?p=109 (508 words)

	Full moon near Jupiter Saturday \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The moderately bright star Alphard, "the solitary one," is two fist-lengths south, or to the right, of Regulus.
		Alphard is the brightest star in the long, dim constellation Hydra, which spans about a third of the celestial sphere.
		The group of stars forming the "head" of Hydra is between Regulus and Procyon, south of the Beehive Cluster.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/12469 (289 words)

	Gemini, a February Constellation
		Both stars are spectroscopic binaries, and small telescopes show a 9th magnitude red dwarf companion, which is itself an eclipsing binary star.
		This is mainly because Johann Bayer, who labelled the stars with Greek letters in 1603, did not carefully distinguish which was the brighter star of the "Twins".
		The primary star is a spectroscopic and occultation binary with a period of 8.17 years.
	www.faster.co.nz /~rasnz/Stars/Gemini.htm (790 words)

	Pollux.
		A "yellowish" or "reddish," star positioned on the head of the Southern Twin, "the immortal Twin" in the constellation of Gemini.
		It is one of the lunar stars made use of in navigation; and, in astrology, differed from its companion in portending eminence and renown.
		Pollux has a strong Martian nature and has the name 'the wicked boy' of the of the sibling Twins.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Pollux.html (829 words)

	AAVSO: Observing Campaign: Beta Gem (Pollux)
		Pollux has a diameter of approxiamtely 8 milliarcseconds which is well suited to resolution of surface features on this red giant star with the NPOI.
		Pollux is an xray source detected by both the Einstein and ROSAT orbiting xray telescopes, and has other observational signatures of a magnetically active star, and thus we expect some spot activity may be present on the stellar surface.
		Pollux's rotation velocity is 4.8 km/sec and it has a radius of approximately 15 solar radii.
	www.aavso.org /news/betagem.shtml (653 words)

	The First Binary Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Castor and Pollux, the Gemini twins of mythology, are represented by the two brightest stars on this constellation with Castor shining to the north of Pollux.
		The other twin of Gemini, Pollux, is designated Beta Geminorum, but Pollux is the 17th brightest star in the sky (magnitude 1.16) while Castor is the 23rd brightest (magnitude 1.59).
		The two stars visible in amateur telescopes, Castor A and B, are magnitude 2.0 and 2.8.
	ephemeris.sjaa.net /0205/e.html (415 words)

	Constellation Mythology - Perseus the hero
		The two principle stars of Gemini are Castor and Pollux, two of the most recognizable stars in the heavens.
		Pollux, the beta star, is a magnitude 1.1 yellow giant, 10 times the size of our Sun, and is actually brighter than Castor, even though Castor, at magnitude 1.6, is listed as the alpha star.
		The constellation represents the twins Castor and Pollux.
	www.fvastro.org /articles/gemini.htm (700 words)

	Pollux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to Burnham, Pollux is the 14th brightest star in the sky.
		The star is an orange K0IIIb giant star having a luminosity about 30 times that of the sun.
		The spectral type of the star implies a temperature of about 4500 K, a mass of maybe 4 times that of the sun, and a diameter about 16 times that of the sun.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/pollux.html (103 words)

	Pollux - Memory Alpha
		Pollux (also known as Beta Geminorum) is a star (spectral class K0IIIb) which is in Federation space, about 33.7 light years from Sol and the primary of the Pollux system.
		Beta Geminorum was mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG: "Conspiracy." It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed.
		Star Trek and related names are trademarks of Paramount Pictures, and are used under "fair use" guidelines.
	memory-alpha.org /en/index.php?title=Pollux&printable=yes (166 words)

	Castor and Pollux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gemini or Gemini twins, known in Roman mythology as Castor and Pollux and in Greek as Kastor and Polydeuces, are the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.
		They had their own temple in the Roman Forum: see Temple of Castor and Pollux.
		The constellation Gemini is said to represent these twins, and its brightest stars Castor and Pollux (α and β Geminorum) are named for them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castor_and_Polydeuces (652 words)

	Ursa Major as a Guide
		These are the two stars at the end of the cup of the "Big Dipper." Another interesting pair of stars is in the middle of the handle of the dipper.
		Pollux is the seventeenth (17) brightest star in the night sky and the fifteenth (15)closest star to our solar system at forty (40) light year's away.
		Deneb is the brightest star in Cygnus and is the nineteenth (19) brightest star in the night sky.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/guide/uma-guide.html (1172 words)

	Constellation Gemini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The two were born from an egg laid by Leda after she was seduced by Zeus in the disguise of a swan.
		Yet it was said that Pollux was the son of Zeus, and Castor was the son of Tyndareus.
		Pollux, the immortal son of Zeus, begged to die so that he would not be separated from his brother.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/gemini.html (420 words)

	Lakota Star Knowledge 2, Constellations, Names, Maps
		Both the stars in the circle and the Black Hills contain time in their mirrors of each other, but not in the same way.
		Old Baldy, a bare place in the Hills marks the center of the ceremonial geography -- but there is no star or constellation to mark the starry circle's center in the sky, the correspondence is 2 different kinds of empty places.
		As can be seen from the Lakota book's re-vivification of Lakota star knowledge (which took many years of work by native scholars), attacks on Native religion were really attacks on entire lifeways, since religion wasn't something separate, all forms of knowledge were at risk, and all methods of preservation had to be clandestine.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/stars/startabs.html (1337 words)

	Mars, Saturn, Venus are among attractions \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Venus is low and bright, with the moon above it, and Mars and Saturn a nice pair (Saturn is the brighter of the two).
		The "Twins," Castor and Pollux, are above Saturn; the three objects forming a pretty triangle in the west.
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	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/22862 (245 words)

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