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English: The star Castor is a system of six gravitationally bound stars. There are three pairs of stars, each pair orbiting their common center of mass. The Castor A pair and the Castor B pair mutually orbit their common center of mass. These fours stars, and the Castor C pair orbit their common center of mass.
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Author NASA/JPL-Caltech; edited by Nicholas Beeson

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The sextuple star system Castor, located in the constellation Gemini, and details about its components.

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18 October 2020

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