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Its story

In Gemini, the celestial brothers, pulses an orange K-class giant whose light departed in the late 18th century, while the French Revolution was redrawing Europe. Cooler than the Sun yet swollen to ten or twenty times its radius, it shines with a serene orange typical of stars that have left their nuclear youth behind. Its calm glow accompanies Castor and Pollux in silence, never disputing their winter spotlight.