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Its story

81 Geminorum is a K-type orange giant glowing about 339 light-years away, set within the bodies of the celestial twins Castor and Pollux. It belongs to the generation of stars that have left stable youth behind and swollen as their core hydrogen ran out. In the classical outline of Gemini it holds a quiet position, well off the two main beacons but steady in its own corner.