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Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...
Of all the constellations we see through the year, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest. The only problem is that it’s also ...
The bright star Spica will appear to dance around Earth's moon on the night of May 9. Here's how to catch the celestial pair ...
Of all the constellations visible throughout the year over Pottsville, Virgo the Virgin is the second largest. The only ...
As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, ...
The Moon passes just 0.4° south of Virgo the Maiden's bright alpha star, Spica, early on the morning of May 10.
There's a big diamond in the sky made by connecting the stars Arcturus, Spica, Denebola and Cor Caroli. Once found, you can ...
Planetarium and Program Coordinator Katy Downing of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center shares the visible planets and ...
Greetings everyone! Although Mercury is no longer in the early morning sky, Venus will be impossible to miss and Saturn will ...
From North America, Spica — the brightest star in the constellation Virgo — will be to the left/upper-left of the moon. However, from almost all of South America, the moon will occult Spica ...
The constellations march ever westward from ... we eventually will "speed to Spica," the brightest star of Virgo the Maiden. Spica is a blue-white first magnitude star 250 light-years away.