Gam

Its story

Gamma Columbae is a blue B-type star nearly 870 light-years away, set within the modest constellation of the Dove, devised by the cartographer Petrus Plancius as a reminder of the biblical bird of the Flood. Its scorching surface radiates a power far beyond the Sun's, though distance softens its apparent brilliance. Seen from Earth, it seems to swim silently near the feet of Canis Major, in a region of the sky ruled by hot stars.