The Great Bear in Berlin

A bear is the symbol for the city of Berlin,.You find it on the city flag. I have read that it because they say "Bear-lin" not "Burr-lin" as we do in England. There are a lot of these beautifully painted bears in the city. I liked this one most of all, Constellations are a funny thing. They are all in the human imagination. The stars in each constellation are all different distances away but are seen by us in the same direction. But they are a useful way of finding your way round the sky. The constellations of the zodiac are given prominence on this bear. They are the constellations that are on the same plane as the Earth, the Sun and the planets. That's why the planets seem to move through these constellations. The solar planets don't appear anywhere else in the sky.