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1 Sun Pollux By: Clark

2 About Pollux Pollux is about 34 light years away from Earth
46 times brighter than the sun Yellow- orange color Located in the constellation Gemini 4,865 Kelvin About 8,650,000 miles in diameter

3 Pollux in its constellation
Pollux is located in the Gemini constellation. Pollux is the brightest star in the constellation, brighter than Castor its twin. Gemini -The Gemini symbol -The twins

4 Pollux on the H-R diagram
Pollux is located in the giants area on the H-R diagram. It is about the average luminosity out of all the stars on the H-R diagram.

5 Pollux’ life cycle Pollux came from a nebula then turned into a high mass protostar the a high mass star Pollux turned into the supergiant stage of its life which it is currently in now. It will then explode into a supernova. Then it will either turn into a black hole or a neutron star.

6 What is Kelvin? The Kelvin scale and the Kelvin are named after the British physicist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Unlike the degree Fahrenheit and degree Celsius, the Kelvin is not referred to as a "degree", nor is it typeset with a degree symbol; that is, it is written K and not °K. Kelvin to Fahrenheit [°F] = [K] × 9⁄5 − 459.67 Fahrenheit to Kelvin [K] = ([°F] + 459.67) × 5⁄9

7 Sites I got my info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)


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