Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...

Go figure. Spica is actually a double star system about 250 light-years, or a little over 1,400 trillion miles, from Earth. Both stars are significantly larger than our sun and emit much more light.

There's a big diamond in the sky made by connecting the stars Arcturus, Spica, Denebola and Cor Caroli. Once found, you can use it to find each star's associated constellation. The spring sky is ...

Covering 1294 square degrees, Virgo is the second largest constellation after Hydra, and there’s plenty going on here. Many of the stars serve as touchstones to help reveal its deeper mysteries.

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said Friday.