Nu-2

Its story

Nu-2 Columbae inhabits the Dove, a modern constellation created in the sixteenth century by the astronomer Petrus Plancius to represent the bird Noah released from the ark after the flood. It is a yellowish-white F-type star 133 light-years away, young and clear, lying south of the Hare and Orion. Its discreet brightness barely reaches the limit of comfortable naked-eye vision, a delicate light in a late constellation that never entered the classical sky of Ptolemy.