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Its story

In Columba, the small dove of the southern sky, glows a white A-type star whose light set out around 1747, when Lacaille was embarking on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope to chart the south. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wears the clean white of stars still young. Its cold glow rests within a small, discreet constellation curiously named in honour of the ark.