Orange Giant · Confirmed Exoplanet

Pollux

Pollux is the brightest star in Gemini and the closest giant star to the Sun. In 2006, astronomers confirmed it hosts a planet — Pollux b (now called Thestias) — a gas giant 2.3 times Jupiter's mass. It was the first confirmed exoplanet aro

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