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Its story

22 Leonis is a white A-type star shining at 135 light-years inside the lion's outline, one of the few constellations that visibly recalls the animal it portrays. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its sharp spectrum places it in full stellar youth. Every November the Leonid meteor shower radiates from a nearby zone, sweeping across a sector populated by giants and subgiants.