(Adding categories) |
No edit summary Tag: Source edit |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ⚫ | {{Star|title1 = Pollux|image1 = [[File:K.PNG|thumb|Pollux.]]|caption1 = Pollux.|diameter = 11,000,000 kilometers|temperature = 7,939°F|mass = 2.04 x Sun|luminosity = 43 x Sun|spectral_type = K0 III|apparent_magnitude = +1.14|gravity = 4.842 m/s²|constellation = Gemini|elements = Ionized hydrogen and helium|distance = 33.72 light years|age = 724,500,000 years old}} |
||
| − | Pollux is an orange giant that will be a [[red giant]] a few million years later. The [[Sun]] will have a similar life cycle as Pollux. |
+ | Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini. It is an orange giant that will be a [[red giant]] a few million years later. The [[Sun]] will have a similar life cycle as Pollux. The future, unstable red giant Pollux will explode to a planetary nebula like most other orange giants becoming red giants. |
| + | |||
| + | Pollux was once a A-type star that has exhausted its core hydrogen, and has swollen in size. A few millenia ago, Pollux was a G-type subgiant star. Now, as it has slightly expanded, it is now a K0 III star. |
||
| ⚫ | {{Star|title1 = Pollux|image1 = [[File:K.PNG|thumb|Pollux.]]|caption1 = Pollux.|diameter = 11,000,000 kilometers|temperature = 7,939°F|mass = 2.04 x Sun|luminosity = 43 x Sun|spectral_type = K0 III|apparent_magnitude = +1.14|gravity = 4.842 m/s²|constellation = Gemini|elements = Ionized hydrogen and helium|distance = 33.72 light years|age = 724,500,000 years old}} |
||
[[Category:Giants]] |
[[Category:Giants]] |
||
[[Category:Stars]] |
[[Category:Stars]] |
||
[[Category:K-Class Stars]] |
[[Category:K-Class Stars]] |
||
| − | [[Category: |
+ | [[Category:Luminous Giants]] |
| + | [[Category:Orange Giants]] |
||
Latest revision as of 00:19, 6 December 2021
Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini. It is an orange giant that will be a red giant a few million years later. The Sun will have a similar life cycle as Pollux. The future, unstable red giant Pollux will explode to a planetary nebula like most other orange giants becoming red giants.
Pollux was once a A-type star that has exhausted its core hydrogen, and has swollen in size. A few millenia ago, Pollux was a G-type subgiant star. Now, as it has slightly expanded, it is now a K0 III star.