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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | Gemini Latin: twins symbol is one of the constellations of the zodiac known as "the twins". It is part of the winter sky lying between Taurus to the west and the dim Cancer to the east with Auriga and the near-invisible Lynx to the north and Monoceros and Canis Minor to the south. The Gemini program is named for it. Since this constellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figures [1] considering faint stars visible to the naked eye it was associated with the myth of Castor and Polydeuces also known as Pollux collectively known as the Dioscuri. A myth of these twins heavily concerns cattle theft and may be connected to early views of the Milky Way as a herd of dairy cows or cattle by which they are situated. The fattness of the constellation can vary since they readily form stick figures whether leaning right or left though the twins are usually viewed as left leaning. However when right leaning one of the twins resides in the Milky Way and the other outside it a situation making it appear that one of the twins is stealing the cattle and the other is observing. In this situation together with the area of the sky that is deserted now considered as the new and extremely faint constellations Camelopardalis and Lynx and the other features of the area in the Zodiac sign of Gemini i.e. Orion Auriga and Canis Major this may be the origin of the myth of the cattle of Geryon which forms one of The Twelve Labours of Heracles. | | Headline | Gemini Latin: twins symbol is one of the constellations of the zodiac known as "the twins". | | Copyright Notice | wiki/Gemini_constellation | | Credit | hubblesource.stsci.edu | | URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_constellation |
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