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 ...

Virgo the Virgin is the second largest constellation in the Pottsville night skies, but it’s also one of the faintest. Its only bright star is Spica. The rest of Virgo’s stars are barel… ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one ...

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.

James Webb has captured a beautiful snapshot of star birth in the Virgo constellation. The latest image from the powerful observatory takes a closer look at the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068.

Over half of the 88 official constellation names are attributed to the ancient Greeks.; The International Astronomical Union governs the naming of these star-formed “patterns.” The first known ...

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.