Pollux is an orange giant star in the constellation Gemini. It is the brightest star In said constellation, Although it is given the Bayer designation \u03b2 Geminorum. Pollux, along with Castor are named after the twins in Greek and Roman mythology, hence the two stars’ origin constellation. Pollux is the nearest giant star to the sun. It is said that there may be a planet orbiting Pollux, dubbed Thestias. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radius (in Solar Radii): 8.97 R<\/em>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diameter (in Kilometers): 12,486,240 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mass (in Solar Masses): 1.91 M<\/var>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Distance (in Light Years): 33.78 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectral type: K0 III (Orange)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pollux is an orange giant star in the constellation Gemini. It is the brightest star In said constellation, Although it is given the Bayer designation \u03b2 Geminorum. Pollux, along with Castor are named after the twins in Greek and Roman mythology, hence the two stars’ origin constellation. Pollux is the nearest giant star to the sun. It is said that… Continue reading Pollux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orange-giant-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-gemini","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}