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Spica

(Encyclopedia)Spica sp´k [key], brightest star in the constellation Virgo; Bayer designation Alpha Virginis; 1992 position R.A. 13h24.8m, Dec. 11°07. A bluish-white star of spectral class B1 V, its appa...

Virgo

(Encyclopedia)Virgo vûr´g [key] [Lat.,=the virgin], constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Libra and Leo, and SW of Boötes; it is one of the constellations of...

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