Spica
The brightest star in Virgo: two hot blue stars so close together that each pulls the other into an egg shape.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.98, the 16th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 250 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white main-sequence star, spectral type B1 V
- Light it gives out
- About 2,100 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Virgo, where it is α Virginis
- Catalogue number
- HIP 65474
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources