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Mirfak
Mirfak (Alpha Persei) is an F-type yellow-white supergiant roughly 590 light-years from Earth and the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, with an apparent magnitude of about 1.8. It serves as the gravitational anchor of the Alpha Persei Moving Cluster (Melotte 20), an open cluster of stars sharing common proper motion. Mirfak is one of several bright stars in the Perseus OB3 association v...
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Castor
Castor, designated Alpha Geminorum, is the second-brightest star system in the constellation of Gemini, located approximately 51 light-years from Earth. Despite its Bayer designation implying it is the brightest, it is fainter than its neighbor Pollux. Astronomically, Castor is a complex system composed of six individual stars arranged into three binary pairs that orbit a common center of mass.
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