#taurus. my beloved. my beloved for so many reasons. for crab nebula and aldebaran reasons. and for archaeoastronomy reasons | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

oflgtfol · 8 months ago

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three years after this post i have discovered that the star castor in the constellation gemini, is actually also a sextuple system with basically the same configuration

today i am thinking about this six-star system and nothing else

#been obsessing over it for the past week. so fucking cool #brot posts #astro posting #the more i self teach myself stuff about actual constellations the more i come to love the zodiac #fuck astrology lol but especially fucking astrology bc the zodiac constellations are genuinely so fun and cool. as constellations.#and it sucks that if i ever wanna talk about them i always have to preface it with . 'i love the zodiac but in an ASTRONOMY way'#each constellation is super cool in their own way #except maybe aries lmfao aries has literally nothing going on inside of it. sorry aries #taurus. my beloved. my beloved for so many reasons. for crab nebula and aldebaran reasons. and for archaeoastronomy reasons #and then moving onto gemini i was expecting another meh situation especially bc taurus is such a hard act to follow #but no gemini is also actually super fucking cool???#i mean granted im nerding out solely over a single star in gemini but STILL #CASTOR IS SOOOO COOL ITS A SEXTUPLE SYSTEMM #castor has been identified since ANTIQUITY and obv we only relatively recently discovered that its not a single star #but just think how cool it is. humans have been identifying this star for millennia. and this star is actually six stars #unlike the system in the original post fuking TYC 7037-89-I some random shit found in a random sky survey #anyway ive also been looking ahead to virgo now too since virgo's beginning to rise at night #and i havent had the time to actually sit down and like. Remember anything yet #but from my first preliminary research attempt virgo is also super fucking cool. SO many messier objects inside it #perhaps due to the fact its like. the second largest constellation so it has a larger area inside of it. or perhaps it has a higher density #of messier objects relative to the area it covers. idk regardless so fun cant wait to look more into it

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