The constellation Gemini the Twins is well placed in the winter evening sky, to the left of Orion.This patch of stars, scattered at random across a portion of the sky, was long, long ago imagined to form a pattern of twins by the names of Castor and Pollux.It takes some imagination to see the assembly of stars as a couple brothers standing next to each other, but the late, famed star watcher and children's book author and illustrator H.A. Rey did just that. He connected the stars in [...]
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