They also help us to remember the location of the stars. Constellations named for our feathered friends include Aquila the Eagle, Columba the Dove, Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan, Grus the Crane ...

In contrast to Lepus, Columba is not among the 48 constellations usually attributed to the ancients. Its origin is uncertain, but it is believed to have been named by Petrus Plancius, a sixteenth ...

Over half of the 88 official constellation names are attributed to the ancient Greeks. The International Astronomical Union governs the naming of these star-formed “patterns.” The first known ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a young red star in the constellation Columba ... gas and dust around a small red star named WISE J044634.16-262756.1B (J0446B).

Birds of a feather may flock together here on Earth, but our avian friends are also well represented in the night sky as constellations named after ... of-paradise), and Columba (dove).