Star
Pollux
Pollux is an orange star 33.8 light-years away, seen as it was 34 years ago, shining 32 times as bright as the Sun.
The closest giant star to the Sun, and the brightest star in Gemini. A planet, Thestias, was announced around it in 2006.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 33.8 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.16
- Spectral type
- K0IIIvar
- Catalogue
- HIP 37826
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.