Kap

Its story

Kappa Columbae shines in the Dove, a constellation drawn by the cartographer Plancius in the late sixteenth century near Argo Navis to depict the bird Noah released from the Ark. It is a yellow G-type star, sun-like in colour but already a giant, lying 183 light-years away. Its warm light belongs to the late imagination of the sky, when Europeans were finishing the baptism of the southern regions.