Indus is a constellation in the southern sky first professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s and mapped on a globe by Petrus Plancius by early 1598.

The English translation of its name is generally given as the Indian, though it is unclear which indigenous people the constellation was originally supposed to represent.

[4] The system has been discovered to contain a pair of binary brown dwarfs, and has long been a prime candidate in SETI studies.

[5][6] This star has the third-highest proper motion of all visible to the unaided eye, as ranks behind Groombridge 1830 and 61 Cygni, and the ninth-highest overall.

[8] The constellation was created by Petrus Plancius who made a fairly large celestial globe from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

[9][10] Plancius portrayed the figure as a nude male with three arrows in one hand and one in the other, as a native, lacking quiver and bow.