Omi

Its story

Omicron Columbae accompanies the modest flight of the Dove, the constellation that Petrus Plancius drew at the end of the sixteenth century over the patch of sky where tradition placed the bird of the Flood. An orange type K giant some 106 light-years away, it is among the relatively close neighbours of the solar system within its figure. Its tepid light evokes the fate of every Sun-like star which, long after youth, begins to swell and tint itself orange.