Mars and Regulus
June 15 - June 16
About 90 minutes after sunset, look for red Mars shining next to the similarly bright Regulus, one of our brightest stars. Regulus, a member of the Leo constellation, is actually a quadruple star system composed of four stars organized into two pairs.
Regulus is also known as Qalb al-Asad, from the Arabic ??? ?????, meaning ‘the heart of the lion’.