What is the Castor's distance from the sun? What is the diameter of the castor star? How far away from the earth is it? How far away is the castor star from the moon?
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What is the Castor's distance from the sun? What is the diameter of the castor star? How far away from the earth is it? How far away is the castor star from the moon?
ans. 51 light-years
- Castor is 51 light-years away from Earth, determined from its large annual parallax. The two brightest stars are both A-class main-sequence stars, more massive and brighter than the Sun.
- Castor is 51 light-years away from Earth, determined from its large annual parallax.
- 52 light-years
- The fainter, whiter star is Castor. These two stars of nearly equal brightness in Earth's sky are not really related in space, and Pollux is not one of the six stars in the Castor system. At 34 light-years, Pollux is closer than Castor (52 light-years).
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