Jishui

Its story

Jishui preserves the name Chinese astronomy gave to this star in Gemini, linked to an asterism of standing waters or swollen rivers in the old agricultural tradition. It is a yellow-white star 166 light-years away, slightly hotter than the Sun. Its light, observed tonight, set out in a nineteenth century still vigorously debating whether nebulae were clouds of gas or entire galaxies at immense distances.