Notable features
This constellation contains several brightly stars, like Regulus (α Leonis), the lion's heart; Denebola (β Leonis); and γ¹ Leonis (Algieba). Numbers of more conk stars keep around been known as too, like δ Leo (Zosma), θ Leo (Chort), κ Leo (Al Minliar al Asad ), λ Leo (Alterf), and (ο Leo (Subra).

Regulus, η Leonis, & γ Leonis, together using a conk stars ζ Leo (Adhafera), μ Leo (Ras Elased Borealis), and ε Leo (Ras Elased Australis), make up the asterism known as the Sickle. These stars represent a head & a mane of the lion.

a previous asterism representing the tuft of the lion's tail end has since get its have constellation, Coma Berenices.

A star Wolf 359, one of the nearest stars to Earth's solar technique (Septenary.Heptad weak-years), is inside Leo. Gliese 436, a pass out star inside Leo astir 33 light-year out of a Sun, is orbited by one of a little extrasolar planets ever found. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040831.wplanet20831a/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/]

Notable deep sky objects
Leo contains numerous brilliantly galaxies of which the twins M65, M66 and M95, M96 are the best known.

History of the name
Early Hindu stargazer knew it when Asleha & when Sinha, a Tamil Simham but late, influenced by Greece & Rome, when Leya or even Leyaya, from either a word Leo, when a Romans usually known as it.

Ovid wrote it as Herculeus Leo & Violentus Leo. Bacchi Sidus (Star of Bacchus) was another of its titles, the god universally existence identified by owning this animate being, & its shape a a single typically adopted by him around his many transformations, when a lion's skin was his frequent dress. However Manilius had it Jovis et Junonis Sidus (Star of Jove and Juno), as existence under a guardianship one divinity, possibly suitably shopping for its royal character, especially that of its lucida.

A Persians known as it Ser or even Shir; a Turks, Artan; a Syrians, Aryo; a Jews, Arye; & a Babylonians, Aru - everthing meaning the lion. Within Euphratean uranology it was in addition referred to as Gisbar-namru-sa-pan, diversely translated, however by Bertin, as a Shining Disc which precedes Bel, "Bel" existence my Ursa Major, or someways intimately attached therewith.

History of the symbol
A adoption of this carnal's form for a zodiac sign has been attributed to a fact that whilst the Sun was among its stars inside june 21 the lions of the desert left their wonted hangout for the banks of the Nile, where it can locate relief from either a heat in the waters of the inundation. Pliny wrote that a Egyptians worshipped a stars of Leo because a rise of their awesome flow of any stream was coincident by using the Sun's entrance among the children. For a equivalent understanding the Sphinx is said to have been sculptured by having Leo's immune system & a head of the adjacent Virgo, although Egyptologists maintain that this head represented one of a early kings, or even the god Harmachis.

Distinct information is mass produced to Leo within an inscription of the bulwarks of the Ramesseum at Thebes, which, like a Nile temples usually, was decked using a animate being's bristles, when you took a planisphere of Dendera its figure is shown standing on an outstretched serpent. the Egyptian prima Lion, nevertheless, comprised merely a a portion of ours, & in the earliest records occasionally of its stars were shown when a knife, as it at present come as a reaping hook. Kircher gave its title there as Πιμεντεκεων, Cubitus Nili.

A astrological symbol , but how else their Lion agreed, whenever the least bit, using ours is does'nt known.

Mythology
Inside Greek mythology, it was identified as a Nemean Lion (and will use at times been the source of the tale) which was flushed by Herakles during one of his twelve labours, and afterwards put into a sky.

Astrology
A American astrological sign Leo of the tropical zodiac (July 23 - August 22) differs from a astronomic constellation & a Hindu astrological sign of the sidereal zodiac (August 10 - September 15).

Around a bit of cosmologies, Leo is associated by using a classical element Fire, and so known as the Fire Sign (sustaining Aries and Sagittarius). Leo is besides one of a Fixed signs (along by using Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius).

These are a domicile of the Sun. A Egyptian pharaoh of egypt Necepsos, and his philosopher Petosiris, taught that at a creation of the globe the Helianthemum on this text touching Denebola, and hence Leo was Domicilium Solis, a emblem of fire & heat, & a "House of the Sun".

To each one astrological sign is assigned a a share of the immune system, hold the seat of its power. Leo system a heart & spine.

Alchemy
In the symbolism of alchemy, Leo denoted the absorption or even assimilation of of these substance by a second.

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