Columba
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Columbae
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Saint, a.d. 521–597, Irish missionary in Scotland.
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Also called Columba Noae. Astronomy. the Dove, or Noah's Dove, a southern constellation between Caelum and Canis Major.
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Etymology
Origin of Columba
Latin, literally: dove
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Bush was referring to the three children of his son Jeb and his Mexican-born wife, Columba, and he said the comment had been misinterpreted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
No. 25 Princeton has won 15 straight games and sits a game in front of Columba in the Ivy League standings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
The discovery of the object was made while observing a large cluster of stars known as NGC 1851 located in the southern constellation of Columba, using the MeerKAT telescope.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
The legend of Nessie dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a beast in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023
Patrick, Brigid, Columba, Brendan, Molaisre, Catherine, and Dabeoc, who was the patron of the place.
From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 by
In the October issue of The Astronomical Journal, Riedel and his colleagues report that the high lithium level means AP Columbae is the closest pre-main-sequence star ever found.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
But how did a star as young as AP Columbae end up so close to Earth?
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
AP Columbae has a strong magnetic field that unleashes bright flares, he notes, suggesting that astronomers may be able to use it to study magnetic fields "up close and personal."
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
AP Columbae lies in the constellation Columba the Dove, south of the brilliant constellation Orion.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
It breeds several times in the year, making for its nest a slight platform of sticks on the horizontal bough of a tree, and laying therein two eggs—which, as in all the Columbae, are white.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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