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More stars! These are Castor and Pollux, aka Gemini Alpha and Beta
I will only do the Alpha star of every constellation, however I had to make an exception for Gemini, his two stars just belong together!

So Gemini himself isn’t a twin, but these two stars are! The myth behind these stars is the exact same myth as the Gemini constellation, since these are the names of the twins! However, it should be noted that these are personifications of the stars. So they are named after the twins of the myth, and based on them - but they are not them. If that makes sense haha!

These two are orange hued giants - Pollux is pretty normal but Castor is actually quite a special star! You see, he’s a triple binary star. A binary star is a star that appears to be one star from earth but is actually one big star with a smaller star orbiting it. Now in Castor’s case it’s not a big star and their companion star, no it’s three big boys who all have a buddy! It was hard to translate this to a working character that could be Pollux twin brother, but I eventually choose for Castor being the main guy and him having a team of 5 stars helping him out. They’re all named Castor, but in their culture that’s probably normal. The proper way these stars are named are with a simple ABC system. The main biggest star is called Castor Aa, and his companion is named Castor Ab. The second brightest star is Castor Ba etc. So in reality the guy up here is Castor Aa, but you can just call him Castor

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More stars! These are Castor and Pollux, aka Gemini Alpha and Beta
I will only do the Alpha star of every constellation, however I had to make an exception for Gemini, his two stars just belong together!

So Gemini himself isn’t a twin, but these two stars are! The myth behind these stars is the exact same myth as the Gemini constellation, since these are the names of the twins! However, it should be noted that these are personifications of the stars. So they are named after the twins of the myth, and based on them - but they are not them. If that makes sense haha!

These two are orange hued giants - Pollux is pretty normal but Castor is actually quite a special star! You see, he’s a triple binary star. A binary star is a star that appears to be one star from earth but is actually one big star with a smaller star orbiting it. Now in Castor’s case it’s not a big star and their companion star, no it’s three big boys who all have a buddy! It was hard to translate this to a working character that could be Pollux twin brother, but I eventually choose for Castor being the main guy and him having a team of 5 stars helping him out. They’re all named Castor, but in their culture that’s probably normal. The proper way these stars are named are with a simple ABC system. The main biggest star is called Castor Aa, and his companion is named Castor Ab. The second brightest star is Castor Ba etc. So in reality the guy up here is Castor Aa, but you can just call him Castor