Lyrids

[lahy-ridz]

Lyrid Meteor Shower www.space.com/Lyrid-Shower Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks this weekend. Bright meteor shower.

noun (used with a plural verb) Astronomy.

a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Lyrid meteor shower) visible April 22 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Lyra.

Origin:
Lyr(a) + -ids, plural of -id¹

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Lyrids is always a great word to know.

So is Leo. Does it mean:

the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus

the polestar or North Star, a star of the second magnitude close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor

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