Geminga
PSR B0633+17
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Star
- Right ascension
- 98.4756°
- Declination
- 17.7703°
- Designation
- PSR B0633+17
- IAU name adopted
- 2022-04-04
- Name language
- Contemporary
- Name origin (IAU)
- 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.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Declination 17.8° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
- Its IAU name «Geminga» comes from Contemporary (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.