✧ Columba

  Columba is an asterism in Columba.

               ·⢤⣀⣀                ⢀⣠•⡀
                  ⠈⠉⠓⠲⠤⢤⣀⡀      ⢀⣠⠖⠋  ⠙⢦⡀
                         ⠉⠙⠒·⠤⠤·⠋       ⠙·
                              ⢀⡇
                              ⢸
                              ⡏
                             ⢰⠃
                             ⡼
                            ⢀⡇
                            ⢸
                            ⡏
                           ⢰⠃
                           ·

  Type            Asterism
  Constellation   Columba
  Stars           6

  More information about Columba

  Columba is small and none of its stars are bright. It lies below Lepus
  and Canis Major. A Dutch mapmaker, Petrus Plancius, assembled it in 1592
  out of stars that no existing constellation had claimed, in the space
  next to the great ship Argo, and the pairing was his point: this is the
  dove that Noah released from the ark to look for land. One of its
  fainter stars, Mu Columbae, is what astronomers call a runaway. It was
  flung out of the star-forming region around Orion roughly two and a half
  million years ago and is still travelling, along with two other stars
  that were thrown out of the same place at the same time and are now
  heading in three different directions.

  Etymology
  From        Latin
  Reading     Columba
  Literally   the dove

  The evolution of Columba over time

  -50,000 years
  
  
  
                                ·⠒⠤⣄⡀                           Phact
                                    ⠉⠑⠢⠤⣀                    ⢠•⣄
                                         ⠉⠓⠦⢄⡀               ⢸ ⠈⠑⠤⡀
                                             ⠈⠑⠒⠤⣀⡀          ⡇    ⠈⠓·
                                                  ·         ⢠⠃
                                                  ⠘⡆        ⡸
                                                   ⢱⡀       ⡇
                                                    ⢇      ⢰⠁
                                                    ⠘⡆     ⡼
                                                     ⢱⡀    ⡇
                                                      ⢧   ⢸⠁
                                                      ⠘⡄  ⡜
                                                       ⢹  ⡇
                                                        ⢧⢸
                                                     ⢀⣀⣀⣘⡎
                                                  ·⠉⠉⠁   · Wazn
  
  
  
  now
  
  
  
                                 ·⠤⣀⣀                          Phact
                                    ⠈⠉⠒⠢⠤⣄⣀                ⢀⡴•⢤⡀
                                           ⠉⠑⠒⠤⢤⣀⡀      ⢀⡤⠒⠁   ⠘⠢⣀
                                                 ⠈·⠒⠢⢤⡤⠒⠁        ⠈⠲·
                                                     ⢰· Wazn
                                                     ⡎
                                                    ⢰⠃
                                                    ⡜
                                                   ⢠⠃
                                                   ⡸
                                                  ⢀⠇
                                                  ⢸
                                                  ⡇
                                                 ⢸
                                                 ⠏
                                                 ·
  
  
  
  +50,000 years
  
                                                   ⢰· Wazn
                                                   ⣸ ⠱⢄
                                                   ⡿  ⠈⠣⡄
                                                  ⢰⡇    ⠈⠦⡀
                                                  ⡸⡇      ⠙⢄
                                  ·⠤⠤⣄⣀⣀⡀         ⣿         ⠱⢄
                                        ⠈⠉⠉⠑⠒⠒⠲⠤⠤⠴⢹    Phact •⠣⡄
                                                  ·            ⠈⠢⡀
                                                  ⡇              ⠈·
                                                 ⢀⡇
                                                 ⢸
                                                 ⢸
                                                 ⡞
                                                 ⡇
                                                ⢀⠇
                                                ⢸
                                                ⢸
                                                ⡏
                                                ⡇
                                                ·

  Over 50,000 years either way the longest side of this figure changes by 70%, and the furthest
  any of its stars travels is 6.8 degrees. Wazn, HR 2106 and HR 2296 drift the opposite way to
  the other 3, which travel together. Proper motion only: this is the shape changing, not the
  sky turning or the pole moving.

  curl 'skymap.sh/Columba/evolution.gif'

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Columba