Pollux

Pollux Essay, Research Paper

The star Pollux, also known as Beta Geminorum or Hercules, is 33.7 x 0.3 light years away from the Earth. It is the closest giant star to the Earth. This star positioned on the head of the Southern Twin, the mortal twin, Castor. Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation Gemini, Castor, the other Gemini star. The northernmost of the zodical constellations, Gemini is also among the brightest, helped by first magnitude Pollux and second magnitude Castor. The name Pollux is Latin meaning immortal twin. Both together were called the heavenly twins. In fact, Pollux and Castor are nothing like twins, Castor a white quadruple star with fairly hot components and Pollux an orange-colored cool giant, the nice pairing with Castor making Pollux’s color brighter. According to Greek mythology their mother was Leda. Pollux was the result of the famous Leda and the Swan affair, when Zeus (the Roman Jupiter) disguised as a swan seduced Leda. Pollux is immortal, like his father. Castor on the other hand was mortal. Though some authors say Zeus was his father too, others site Tyndareus, who had relations with Leda the same night. And rather than twins, Leda bore quadruplets. Pollux and Helen, the famous Helen of Troy were fathered by Zeus; while Castor and Clytemnestra were the mortal offspring of Tyndareus. In Greek, he was known as Polydeuces. Pollux is an orange giant star having luminosity 30 times more than the sun. It is the 16th brightiest star in the sky and is also 35 times bright than our sun. It appears orange, which means it’s cooler than the yellow Sun. That’s because Pollux has expanded from its original size, and when a gas expands, it cools. In theory, the KO status of Pollux tells astronomers that it burns with a brilliant orange colour. Pollux emits X-rays and seems to have a hot, outer, magnetically supports corona perhaps similar to that surrounding our Sun. The surface temperature on the star is 4250.C and creates orange-yellow light. Pollux is the closest star to the Moon. It s at the Moon s left side. To the northeast of Orion, are Castor and Pollux. Close to the Helio planetary, North Node of Saturn, 22CAN47 in 1990 and 23CAN38 in 2000. It also has a magnitude of 1.14 and declination in 2000 of +28.01 . Pollux s spectral class is K0lll and it s colour index, +1.01. It is one of the lunar stars made use of in navigation; and, in astrology, differ from its companion in portending importance. Pollux is a single star. Castor, actually contains six stars. They are arranged in three close pairs. Pollux has a strong Martian nature and has the name ‘the wicked boy’ of the sibling Twins. According to its nature, this star is brutal and tyrannical, violent and cruel if in conjunction with the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and MC or with malefic. Just when Mars has its good sides if the energy, it creates his channeled constructively, so Pollux should not always be considered as unhelpful. The star not placed good, could manifest that way, not by misusing his energy but by others deceiving him and fate, playing cruel tricks on him.