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In the constellation of Gemini, so bright, Gliese 251 twinkles in the night. But don't look too hard, with your naked eye, For its magnitude is too shy. A red dwarf it is, a star so small, M3V is its spectral call. With a temperature of 3300 K, Just 18 light years away it resides, A neighbor to us, by cosmic tides. Its mass, 0.36 solar masses, we know, And its radius, 36% of our Sun's glow. No disk around it, infrared has shown, Gliese 251 stands on its own. But nearby, a star called QY Aurigae, 3.5 light years away, they say. So let's gaze up at the night sky, And wonder about Gliese 251, oh my! A star so near, yet so far away, In the constellation where it will forever stay. Random page: CP-1012