Our Good News this week focuses on the loving sanctuary that is given to big cats. And in the sky, the biggest cat is honored with a constellation, the constellation of Leo which in Latin means Lion.

To find Leo look for the two stars of the Big Dipper’s scoop closest to the handle, which actually point to Leo’s brightest star, Regulus. Regulus spins much faster than our sun, is 350 times more luminous than our sun and is egg-shaped to boot.

Here, in the northern hemisphere, we see Leo best during the Spring, a crouching lion facing west with a very distinctive head and mane…a sickle of stars that flow looking like a backwards question mark.

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