Columba
The Dove
Movement
Mu Columbae, The runaway star
The constellation Columba lies south of Lepus and is a constellation located close to the horizon.
Sisask's image for Columba is "Motion."
There are stars that move, just like Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. While it is not one of the stars that form the shape of the constellation, Mu Columbae, a blue star, moves through the Milky Way at an extraordinary speed of over 100 km per second. It is said that this star was born in the Orion Nebula (M42) and ejected from there, becoming a runaway star. NASA has a photograph that depicts this, and the large, bright blue-white star shining prominently at the top might be Mu Columbae. It is a truly artistic image, as if the star had just burst out of the nebula and is now in motion.
Other runaway stars like Mu Columbae exist as well. At least two more, one in the constellation Aries and another in Auriga, are also believed to have been ejected from the Orion Nebula. However, even at such a tremendous speed, it would still take tens of thousands of years for it to reach a neighboring constellation. The vastness of space is truly mind-boggling!
Sisask's music for Columba features swirling, rotating musical patterns, with the same phrases repeated over and over again. The movement feels as if it is radiating in all directions, drawing closer at one moment and gradually moving away the next.
The constellation Columba lies south of Lepus and is a constellation located close to the horizon.
Sisask's image for Columba is "Motion."
There are stars that move, just like Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. While it is not one of the stars that form the shape of the constellation, Mu Columbae, a blue star, moves through the Milky Way at an extraordinary speed of over 100 km per second. It is said that this star was born in the Orion Nebula (M42) and ejected from there, becoming a runaway star. NASA has a photograph that depicts this, and the large, bright blue-white star shining prominently at the top might be Mu Columbae. It is a truly artistic image, as if the star had just burst out of the nebula and is now in motion.
Other runaway stars like Mu Columbae exist as well. At least two more, one in the constellation Aries and another in Auriga, are also believed to have been ejected from the Orion Nebula.
However, even at such a tremendous speed, it would still take tens of thousands of years for it to reach a neighboring constellation. The vastness of space is truly mind-boggling!
Sisask's music for Columba features swirling, rotating musical patterns, with the same phrases repeated over and over again. The movement feels as if it is radiating in all directions, drawing closer at one moment and gradually moving away the next.
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