Geminga

Gemini · PSR B0633+17

Right ascension (J2000)98.4756°
Declination (J2000)17.7703°
WDS J-
IAU adoption2022/04/04

Name origin

The star name is an Italian pun, suggested in a paper by Bignami et al. (1983): This source is in the constellation of Gemini and it is a gamma-ray source. Pronounced with both G’s as in “get,” the word means “does not exist” or “it’s not there” in Milanese dialect.

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