hip-35941

Its story

59 Geminorum is a yellow-white F-type sun 187 light-years away, inside Gemini, the constellation of the Twins. Castor and Pollux, the mythic brothers, dominate the horizon; between and around them shine stars like this one, more discreet, filling out the bodies of the twins. Its light set out in the early nineteenth century, while Beethoven was still composing. It arrives now as a luminous echo of that age.