J. Reuben Clark, Jr. identifies Kolob as a governing star.
J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Behold the Lamb of God (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1962), 30
Thus the Lord told Abraham, forty centuries ago, that great governing stars, with Kolob as the main one, controlled the rest of the stars of our heavens in their times, revolutions, and courses. What was the force, the intelligence, the wisdom through which this control was exercised over a space of one hundred thousand lightyears in diameter and then thousand light-years thick at its center,—a great whirling disc?