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 ...

Of all the constellations visible throughout the year over Pottsville, Virgo the Virgin is the second largest. The only problem is that it is also one of the faintest. With a lot of visual effort, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've ever tried to pick out the pictures in the night sky, then you've searched for constellations. Associated with legends and astrology, the 12 zodiac constellations align with the 12 zodiac ...

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 ...

NASA released six new, shimmering images of galaxies spotted by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope last week. Many of them millions of light-years away from Earth, the images help researchers better ...

Located almost exactly halfway between the bright Virgo star Spica and Antares, the “heart star” of the constellation of Scorpius in this month’s Colorado Sky is a somewhat inconspicuous constellation ...

Artist's impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction with a small celestial object. Credit: European Space Agency A massive black hole at the heart of a ...