Geminga
Sign in to saveGeminga ( ) is a gamma ray and x-ray pulsar source thought to be a neutron star approximately 250 parsecs (around 800 light-years) from the Sun in the constellation Gemini.
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- Distance from Earth
- 815
- Image
- Halo around pulsar Geminga.jpg
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- catalog code
- 2XMM J063354.2+174614
- time of discovery or invention
- 1972-01-01
- Commons category
- Geminga
- right ascension
- 98.4756375
- declination
- 17.7702528
- parallax
- 4.0
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Geminga ( ) is a gamma ray and x-ray pulsar source thought to be a neutron star approximately 250 parsecs (around 800 light-years) from the Sun in the constellation Gemini.
Its name, attributed by its discoverer Giovanni Bignami, is both a contraction of Gemini gamma-ray source and a transcription of the words (), meaning "it's not there" in Bignami's native Milanese dialect of Lombard. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union on 4 April 2022.
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