Facts about Virgo Constellation
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Located 84 light-years away, Epsilon Virginis is an orange giant star with a surface temperature of approximately 4,900 Kelvin, making it notably cooler than Earth's sun.
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Zubenelgenubi, the brightest star in Virgo's left claw, is actually a binary star system with components separated by approximately 520 astronomical units.
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Sombrero Galaxy, located 29 million light-years away in Virgo, features a dust lane so prominent astronomers initially mistook it for a separate celestial object when first observed.
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Virgo Constellation spans 1,294 square degrees across Earth's sky, making it the second largest constellation after Hydra by area.
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M87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in Virgo located 55 million light-years away, harbors a black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than Earth's sun.
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Messier 49, located in Virgo Constellation, is a giant elliptical galaxy discovered in 1771 and one of the most luminous galaxies within the Virgo Cluster.
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Porrima, also known as Gamma Virginis, is actually two stars orbiting so closely that they appear as one star to the naked eye from Earth.
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Gamma Virginis, located in Virgo Constellation, is a binary star system orbiting each other every 171.4 years with stars separated by approximately 3.7 astronomical units.
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Approximately 3,000 stars visible to the naked eye belong to Virgo Constellation, making it one of the largest zodiacal constellations in Earth's sky.
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Virgo contains the Virgo Cluster, home to approximately 1,300 galaxies located roughly 65 million light-years away.
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The brightest star in Virgo Constellation, Spica, shines at magnitude 0.97 and lies approximately 250 light-years from Earth.