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

Astronomical chart showing a winged virgin, forming the constellation Virgo. Do you know your zodiac sign, and would you know how to find it in the night sky? To help us learn about the astronomy and ...

June presents a perfect opportunity to spot the three biggest constellations in the sky — Hydra, Virgo and Ursa Major — but you may have to look beyond standard star charts to find the Big Three. Over ...

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team What those sensors captured is a galaxy in the Virgo constellation about 20 million light-years from Earth, and because the JWST can see through ...

At the center of the galaxy M87, located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, lies M87*, a supermassive black hole with a mass equivalent to six and a half billion times ...

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 barely visible to ...

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. These ...

Of all the constellations we see through the year, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest. The only problem is that it’s also one of the faintest. With a lot of visual digging, Virgo can be found in ...

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 ...